Caradoc House Ludlow Road Little Stretton Church Stretton Shropshire SY6 6RB Data via plota.co.uk

26/02603/CPL - Certificate Proposed Lawful Use/Dev Approved
Change of use

Proposal

Application for lawful development certificate for proposed use of property as residential care home for adults (aged 18-65) requiring personal care (Use Class C2) Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
15 Jul 2026
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Approved
7 Sept 2026

Approved on 7 Sept 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 7 Sept 2026

Documents 3

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF DECISION Decision · 7 Sept 2026 View ↗

Statements & assessments 1

PDF SUPPORTING STATEMENT Planning statement · 10 Jul 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATIONFORMREDACTED Application Form · 10 Jul 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 3

Shropshire Hills National Landscape
Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.
Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.
Agricultural land, grade 4
Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map 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 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. 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
Shropshire
Application type
Certificate Proposed Lawful Use/Dev
Postcode
SY6 6RB
Received
15 Jul 2026
Validated
15 Jul 2026
Ward
The Strettons
Parish
Church Stretton
Case officer
Show
Target decision
9 Sept 2026
Decision
Certificate - Lawful
Decision date
7 Sept 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Planners & Architects

How this decision compares

Decided in 54 days from validation, about the council's usual 56 days. Approved, as 71% of changes of use here are.

51%decided within 8 weeks
71%approved
100decided in the last year

Plota live figures for changes of use decided by Shropshire in the last twelve months, from validation. Shropshire decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 7 Sept 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15071345
Statutory expiry
9 Sept 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2024 Approved
Maryvale Ludlow Road Little Stretton Church Stretton Shropshire SY6 6RB
Reduce to approx. 12ft 1no Pear & fell 2no Damson within Ludlow Conservation Area
24/01858/TCA
2023 Approved
The Stone House Ludlow Road Little Stretton Church Stretton Shropshire SY6 6RB
Erection of rear two storey extension (amended description).
23/01326/FUL
2020 Approved
Arneke Ludlow Road Little Stretton SY6 6RB
Erection of single storey extension; loft conversion with roof lights
20/02540/FUL
2019 Approved
Fairdale Ludlow Road Little Stretton SY6 6RB
Erection of rear extension, alterations to fenestration and roof eaves; erection of decki…
19/04180/FUL
2019 Approved
Willscott Ludlow Road Little Stretton SY6 6RB
Variation of Condition No.s 2 and 3 (approved plans and materials) attached to planning p…
19/00725/VAR
2018 Approved
Willscott Ludlow Road Little Stretton SY6 6RB
Erection of single storey rear extension; new pitched roof to existing extension and inst…
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Shropshire
Planning Authority Score
7.3/10
Good
#53 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Shropshire is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #53 out of 296. Only 29% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (93%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils
for householder decisions
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Shropshire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
87%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #179 of 296
93%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #136 of 296
78%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #53 of 296
29%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #50 of 296
68%
Minor dwellings approved
350 decided (1-9 homes)
63%
Major dwellings approved
35 decided (10+ homes)
78%
Change of use approved
27 decided
2,083
Total decisions
273 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings