Essington Cemetery Bursnips Road Essington WOLVERHAMPTON WV11 2RE Data via plota.co.uk

26/00384/EIASCR - Screening Opinions Decided

Proposal

EIA Screening Opinion request under Regulation 6(1) of Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 for continuation of use as burial ground and cemetery with an increased burial rate; landscaping; and alterations Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 09:01

Application progress

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Received

29 May 2026

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EIA Not Required

17 Jun 2026

EIA Not Required on 17 Jun 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 5 Jul 2026

Documents 6

Statements & assessments 2

PDF GROUNDWATER RISK ASSESSMENT - PART 1 Documents · 29 May 2026 View ↗ PDF GROUNDWATER RISK ASSESSMENT - PART 2 Documents · 29 May 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 1

PDF Location Plan Location Plan · 29 May 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 7

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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Coal mining development high risk area

Recorded coal mining features at or near the surface. Most planning applications here need a coal mining risk assessment.

From the Mining Remediation Authority, formerly the Coal Authority. The development high risk area marks recorded coal mining features at or near the surface: mine shafts and adits, shallow workings, mine gas and former opencast sites. Most planning applications there need a coal mining risk assessment; householder applications, changes of use and some minor works are exempt. Mine entry positions come from old plans and can be out by several metres, and unrecorded workings can exist anywhere in the coalfield.

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Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2; National infrastructure project about 1743 m away: M54 to M6 Link Road; Inside the Springhill built-up area; Priority habitat about 28 m away: Deciduous woodland; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.

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 Planning Inspectorate, 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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14 Sept 2026Pending

2 Bursnips Road Essington WOLVERHAMPTON WV11 2RE

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Important details

Council: South Staffordshire
Application type: Screening Opinions
Postcode: WV11 2RE
Received: 29 May 2026
Validated: 29 May 2026
Ward: Essington
Parish: ESSINGTON
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 19 Jun 2026
Decision: EIA Not Required
Decision date: 17 Jun 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Astill Planning Consultants

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry: 19 Jun 2026
Env. assessment: No

Historical activity at this location

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

This property

Previous applications at this address

2022 Withdrawn

Application Reference Number: 12/00510/COU Date of Decision: 24/06/2013 Condition Number(…

22/00161/VAR 10 May 2022

2022 Withdrawn

Application Reference Number: 12/00510/COU Date of Decision: 24/06/2013 Condition Number(…

22/00161/VAR 10 May 2022

2021 Approved

Discharge of Condition 16 (water features survey)

12/00510/COND4 14 Jan 2022

2021 Approved

Discharge of Condition 16 (water features survey)

12/00510/COND4 14 Jan 2022

South Staffordshire

Planning Authority Score

3.5/10

Below average

#220 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

South Staffordshire ranks #179 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. 49% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (91%) than the national average (90%).

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

South Staffordshire decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

85%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #211 of 296

91%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #180 of 296

61%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #179 of 296

49%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #222 of 296

71%

Minor dwellings approved

75 decided (1-9 homes)

88%

Major dwellings approved

8 decided (10+ homes)

87%

Change of use approved

23 decided

612

Total decisions

89 refused in the year to March 2026