Former Debenhams Bakers Lane Lichfield Staffordshire Data via plota.co.uk
Proposal
Section 73 application to permission of to vary conditions 2 (Approved Plans) , 5 (Cycle facilities) , 7 (Material details), 11 (Soft landscaping details), 12 (Landscape management and maintenance plan), 13 (Hard landscaping details), 15 (Details of glazing panels) and 16 (Details of Surface materials and boundary treatments) to allow amendments to the design of the scheme and to provide details required by some conditions in order to update them to compliance conditions. Data via plota.co.uk
Application progress
Approved on 3 Mar 2026 · Committee Decision · Last checked 6 Jul 2026
Planning committee
Decided by Lichfield Planning Committee on 2 Mar 2026.
Approved
As officers recommended.
- Officers advised approval because the minor changes maintained the approved design and caused no additional residential, highways or ecology impacts.
- Consultation bodies raised no objections overall, while the flood team requested further drainage information and no neighbour representations were reported at that stage.
- The committee approved the application in line with the officer recommendation.
Source: Plota analysis of Lichfield's committee minutes of 2 Mar 2026.
Documents 10
Decision & officer reports 2
Statements & assessments 3
Application forms 1
Consultation & comments 3
Associated applications 2
Part of
Conditions 2, 5, 7, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16 varied
- VariationSection 73 to vary conditions 2 (Approved Plans), 5 (Cycle facilities), 7 (Material details)…This application25/01592/COUM
Site constraints 4
Show all 2 with distances
- 59 m23, 25, 29 and 33, Levett's FieldsGrade II
- 149 m38, Tamworth StreetGrade II
Checked on 11 September 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
Consultation & key dates
- Neighbours
- 19 Feb 2026
- Consultation
- 15 Jan 2026
- Comments by
- 5 Feb 2026
- Site or press notice
- 3 Feb 2026
- Committee
- 2 Mar 2026
- Env. assessment
- No
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Referenced application
Council archive
Former Debenhams Bakers Lane Lichfield Staffordshire
Application under Section 73 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) to vary Condition 2 of planning permission 23/01216/COUM dated 22.03.2024 for: Demolition of Existing Retail Units (36-44 Bakers Lane) and the Redevelopment, Refurbishment and Partial Change of Use of the Former Debenhams to Accommodate a four-screen Cinema (Sui Generis) and Commercial Units (Class E) along with the Creation of Public Realm and Landscaping and Associated Works. Amendments include internal changes to layout…
- Received
- 4 Nov 2024
- Decided
- 14 Apr 2025
- Outcome
- Approved