Trentham Gardens Stone Road Tittensor Stoke-On-Trent Staffordshire Data via plota.co.uk

26/42274/FUL - Full Application Awaiting decision

Proposal

Full planning permission for the erection of a Drive Thru cafe with a utility yard, installation of plant and condensers with associated changes to car park layout, provision of car and cycle parking, extension of the existing footpath and associated ancillary infrastructure and landscaping Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 7 Oct 2026, 02:45

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Application progress

✓

Received

20 May 2026

✓

Validated

1 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 27 Oct 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 5 Nov 2026 and 17 Dec 2026, from Stafford's recent commercial premises.

Comments are open until 21 Oct 2026

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Documents

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Site constraints 9

Green belt: Stoke-on-Trent

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.

Read the government guidance ↗

Registered park or garden: Trentham Gardens

Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.

Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.

Historic England ↗

Trentham conservation area

Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.

The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.

Council document ↗

In flood zones plus climate change

Inside the extent flood zones 2 and 3 could reach with climate change: the Central allowance for the 2080s on rivers, the Upper End allowance for sea level rise to 2125. From rivers. Defences are not counted.

The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Councils use it to decide when a flood risk assessment and the sequential test are needed. It is indicative and does not show whether a particular property will flood.

Flood map ↗

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.

Habitat network: Wood pasture and parkland

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Radon affected area, class 5

An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.

From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.

UKHSA radon ↗

Also on the record

9 listed buildings within 150 m; Coalfield, development low risk area.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. 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: Stafford
Application type: Full Application
Received: 20 May 2026
Validated: 1 Sept 2026
Ward: Swynnerton And Oulton
Parish: Swynnerton
Case officer: Show
Applicant: Show
Agent: Turley (Birmingham)

Decision outlook

Day 38 of the 56-day target. Stafford usually decides commercial premises by day 92.

target

prediction

Day 3854 days to the predicted decision (day 92)

37%decided within 8 weeks

80%approved

48decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

4 neighbours consulted · Last counted 1 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Comments by: 21 Oct 2026
Env. assessment: No

Stafford

Planning Authority Score

1.8/10

Poor

#278 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Stafford is one of the slowest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #290 out of 296. 54% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (90%) than the national average (90%).

Among the slowest councils in England

for householder decisions

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Stafford decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

84%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #227 of 296

90%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #195 of 296

26%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #290 of 296

54%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #245 of 296

72%

Minor dwellings approved

69 decided (1-9 homes)

75%

Major dwellings approved

8 decided (10+ homes)

81%

Change of use approved

26 decided

512

Total decisions

84 refused in the year to March 2026