Land Rear Of Boythorpe And Wyndfield Walsall Road Pipehill Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8JT Data via plota.co.uk

26/00016/OUT - Outline Application Refused

Proposal

Outline application for the erection of up to 4 No. dwellings, with all other matters reserved (except access). Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
6 Jan 2026
✓
Validated
9 Jan 2026
✓
Consultation
12 Mar 2026
✗
Refused
17 Apr 2026
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 17 Apr 2026 · Committee Decision · Last checked 6 Jul 2026

Documents 33

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 5

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 ↗
Agricultural land, grade 2
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: Network Enhancement Zone 1
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.
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 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
Lichfield
Application type
Outline Application
Postcode
WS13 8JT
Received
6 Jan 2026
Validated
9 Jan 2026
Ward
Hammerwich With Wall
Parish
Wall
Case officer
Show
Target decision
6 Mar 2026
Decision
Refuse
Decision date
17 Apr 2026
Decision level
Committee Decision
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 98 days from validation, 42 days slower than Lichfield's median of 56 for new homes. Refused, as 42% of new homes here are.

67%decided within 8 weeks
58%approved
63decided in the last year

Plota live figures for new homes decided by Lichfield in the last twelve months, from validation. Lichfield decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Neighbours
21 Jan 2026
Consultation
12 Mar 2026
Comments by
22 Mar 2026
Committee
27 Apr 2026
Statutory expiry
6 Mar 2026
Env. assessment
No
Lichfield
Planning Authority Score
7.1/10
Good
#57 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Major dwellings

Lichfield is one of the fastest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #3 out of 296. Only 10% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (85%) than the national average (90%).

Among the fastest councils in England
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Lichfield decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
82%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #250 of 296
85%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #251 of 296
97%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #3 of 296
10%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #3 of 296
66%
Minor dwellings approved
87 decided (1-9 homes)
86%
Major dwellings approved
7 decided (10+ homes)
62%
Change of use approved
39 decided
716
Total decisions
131 refused in the year to March 2026