Land at Wood Farm Cottage, Wood Lane, Willenhall, WV12 5NF Data via plota.co.uk

26/1171 - Full Application Valid Application - Awaiting Registration

Proposal

Part retrospective full planning application for a change of use of land to 5 pitch family Gypsy / Traveller site. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 05:10

Application progress

✓

Received

around 8 Oct 2026

Decision

Expected by 3 Dec 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 11 Dec 2026 and 26 Dec 2026, from Walsall's recent changes of use.

Documents

View the documents on the council's website ↗

Site constraints 10

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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Flood zone 3, rivers and sea

High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.

The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.

Flood map ↗

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.

Coal mining risk assessments ↗

Local nature reserve about 12 m away: Rough Wood Chase

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.

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: 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

Radon affected area, class 2; Nature improvement area: Birmingham and the Black Country; Priority habitat about 8 m away: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh; Inside the Willenhall built-up area.

Not affected

No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 15 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.

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Important details

Council: Walsall
Application type: Full Application
Postcode: WV12 5NF
Received: around 8 Oct 2026
Case officer: Show
Applicant: Show
Agent: Trevor Mennell Planning

Decision outlook

Day 20 of the 56-day target. Walsall usually decides changes of use by day 72.

prediction

Day 2052 days to the predicted decision (day 72)

34%decided within 8 weeks

75%approved

42decided in the last year

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

Walsall

Planning Authority Score

2.1/10

Poor

#271 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Change of use

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