Calderfields Golf Academy Limited, Calderfields Golf Range, Aldridge Road, Walsall, WS4 2JS Data via plota.co.uk

26/0548 - Full Application Approved
Commercial & major worksCommercial premises

Proposal

Full planning application for new covered driving range bays. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
18 May 2026
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Approved
12 Aug 2026

Approved on 12 Aug 2026 · Last checked 10 Sept 2026

Documents

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Site constraints 8

Green belt: Birmingham
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.
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Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Air quality management area: Walsall AQMA
The council has declared the area as failing an air quality objective.
Schemes that add traffic, parking or combustion plant are assessed against the area's action plan and may need an air quality assessment.
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Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Nature recovery project: Purple Horizons; Radon affected area, class 4; Nature improvement area: Birmingham and the Black Country; Coalfield, development low risk area.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Mining Remediation Authority, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Walsall
Application type
Full Application
Postcode
WS4 2JS
Received
18 May 2026
Validated
18 May 2026
Ward
Rushall-Shelfield
Case officer
Show
Target decision
12 Jul 2026
Decision
Grant Permission Subject to Conditions
Decision date
12 Aug 2026
Applicant
Show
Agent
J Mason Associates Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 86 days from validation, 20 days slower than Walsall's median of 66 for commercial premises. Approved, as 73% of commercial premises here are.

41%decided within 8 weeks
73%approved
54decided in the last year

Plota live figures for commercial premises decided by Walsall in the last twelve months, from validation. Walsall decision record →

Historical activity at this location

8 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2020 Approved
Section 73 application: Vary condition 2 of planning application 18/0058 to replace the S…
20/0729
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2021 Approved
CALDERFIELDS HOTEL GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB, ALDRIDGE ROAD, WALSALL, WS4 2JS
Prior approval for the installation of solar photovoltaics equipment on the roof of a non…
21/1505
2019 Approved
CALDERFIELDS HOTEL GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB, ALDRIDGE ROAD, WALSALL, WS4 2JS
4 New floodlights to be fixed to the north east elevation of existing structure.
18/1601
2019 Approved
CALDERFIELDS HOTEL GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB, ALDRIDGE ROAD, WALSALL, WS4 2JS
Change of use of two rooms within golf academy building associated with short distance pr…
19/0353
2018 Approved
CALDERFIELDS DRIVING RANGE, ALDRIDGE ROAD, WALSALL, WS4 2JS
Proposed adventure golf course and the erection of administration building
18/0058
2018 Approved
CALDERFIELDS HOTEL GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB, ALDRIDGE ROAD, WALSALL, WS4 2JS
Lawful Development Certificate for the existing use of the Golf Academy for ancillary fac…
18/0563
2017 Approved
CALDERFIELDS GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB, ALDRIDGE ROAD, WALSALL, WS4 2JS
Side extension to existing clubhouse providing buggy storage at ground floor with office/…
17/1547
2016 Approved
LONGWOOD BOAT CLUB, ALDRIDGE ROAD, WALSALL, WS4 2JS
Ground floor extension to side to form lobby and wc
16/1079
Walsall
Planning Authority Score
2.1/10
Poor
#271 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Walsall is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #228 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 56% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (89%) than the national average (90%).

Frequently extends decision deadlines
expect longer than the statutory limit
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Walsall decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
84%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #230 of 296
89%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #213 of 296
52%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #228 of 296
56%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #257 of 296
66%
Minor dwellings approved
95 decided (1-9 homes)
75%
Major dwellings approved
4 decided (10+ homes)
60%
Change of use approved
48 decided
800
Total decisions
128 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings