Chapel Farm, 111 Chapel Lane, Great Barr, Walsall, B43 7BA Data via plota.co.uk

26/1083 - PA Registered Application
Agricultural

Proposal

Prior Approval for an agricultural produce and machinery store. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
21 Sept 2026
Decision
Expected by 18 Oct 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 30 Oct 2026, from Walsall's recent prior approvals.

Comments are open until 29 Oct 2026

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Documents

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Site constraints 14

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.
Read the government guidance ↗
Registered park or garden: Great Barr Hall
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 ↗
Great Barr 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 ↗
Heritage at risk: Great Barr Hall, Walsall
On the register of historic places assessed as at risk.
A designated building, monument, park or conservation area assessed as at risk from neglect, decay or development. Proposals that secure its future are looked on favourably.
Historic England ↗
Local nature reserve about 7 m away: Merrion's Wood
Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
Agricultural land, grade 3a
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. A site survey can differ.
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.
Council record ↗
Habitat network: Restorable Habitat
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
2 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin; Nature recovery project: Purple Horizons; Radon affected area, class 4; Nature improvement area: Birmingham and the Black Country; Coalfield, development low risk area; Priority habitat about 11 m away: No main habitat but additional habitats present.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 7 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.

Building

Floor area147 m² (1,582 sq ft)
Energy ratingD (61 out of 100), could reach B
PropertyDetached house, 4 habitable rooms
Built1983 to 1990
HeatingBoiler and radiators, mains gas
WallsSolid brick, as built, insulated (assumed)

From the energy performance certificate lodged in June 2025, the latest held for this property, matched to this application by its address. The building may have changed since. View the certificate

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Important details

Council
Walsall
Application type
PA
Postcode
B43 7BA
Received
21 Sept 2026
Validated
21 Sept 2026
Ward
Pheasey Park Farm
Case officer
Show
Target decision
18 Oct 2026
Applicant
Show
Agent
Simon Spencer

Decision outlook

Day 18 of the 56-day target. Walsall usually decides prior approvals by day 38.

Day 1838 days to the 56-day target
95%decided within 8 weeks
65%approved
147decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
15 Oct 2026
Comments by
29 Oct 2026

Historical activity at this location

5 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025 Approved
109, CHAPEL LANE, GREAT BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B43 7BA
Full planning application for the conversion of existing garage into a lounge with extern…
25/0478
2020 Approved
121, CHAPEL LANE, GREAT BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B43 7BA
Rear Single Storey WC extension
20/0710
2018 Approved
ST MARGARETS CHURCH, CHAPEL LANE, GREAT BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B43 7BA
External alterations to glazed link and Narthex, wider door opening to glazed link and pr…
18/1308
2018 Approved
GREAT BARR GOLF CLUB, CHAPEL LANE, GREAT BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B43 7BA
T1 - Black Poplar - Fell to ground level. T2 - Black Poplar - Fell to ground level
18/0914
2018 Refused
107, CHAPEL LANE, GREAT BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B43 7BA
Two storey and single storey extensions to the elevation fronting courtyard area
17/1690
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

Energy performance: Energy performance certificates from the Energy Performance of Buildings Register, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright 2026.