Land to the West of Hermitage Lane Cockspur Street Birchmoor B78 1AH Data via plota.co.uk

2026/0739/OUT - Major Development In Consultation

Proposal

Outline application with all matters reserved save for access for 100% affordable residential development comprising 28No. Dwellings, new adoptable vehicular access road, Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS), and associated works Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
23 Sept 2026
✓
Validated
30 Sept 2026
Decision
Expected by 30 Dec 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 22 Nov 2026 and 10 Dec 2026, from recent outline applications across the UK.

Comments are open until 25 Oct 2026

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Site constraints 5

Coal mining legacy area
Article 4 direction
Borough wide. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.
An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.
Agricultural land, grade 3a
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.
Coal mining legacy areaCouncil record
Recorded by the council for this site.
Council site ↗
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 2; Coalfield, development low risk area.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · 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 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

Application type
Major Development
Postcode
B78 1AH
Received
23 Sept 2026
Validated
30 Sept 2026
Case officer
Show
Target decision
30 Dec 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
Show
Agent
Steve White

Decision outlook

Day 9 of the 91-day target. Councils usually decide outline applications by day 58.

Day 982 days to the 91-day target
49%decided within 8 weeks
58%approved
9%go to committee

Plota live figures for outline applications decided across the UK in the last twelve months, from validation; too few recent outline applications in North Warwickshire to go on. North Warwickshire decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 3 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Consultation
2 Oct 2026
Comments by
25 Oct 2026
Statutory expiry
30 Dec 2026
North Warwickshire
Planning Authority Score
3.9/10
Below average
#199 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Major dwellings

North Warwickshire is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #246 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 57% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are more likely to be approved here than most councils, with a 97% approval rate vs 90% nationally.

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
North Warwickshire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
93%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #63 of 296
97%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #37 of 296
48%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #246 of 296
57%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #258 of 296
84%
Minor dwellings approved
63 decided (1-9 homes)
80%
Major dwellings approved
5 decided (10+ homes)
88%
Change of use approved
26 decided
368
Total decisions
24 refused in the year to March 2026