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26/01061/CLP - Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed Approved

Proposal

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View original council record ↗Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 01:51

Application progress

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Received

24 Aug 2026

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Validated

25 Aug 2026

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Consultation

15 Sept 2026

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Approved

8 Oct 2026

Approved on 8 Oct 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 9 Oct 2026

Documents 2

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF Clp decision Decision Notice · 8 Oct 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 8

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.

Coal mining risk assessments ↗

SSSI about 41 m away: Chasewater And The Southern Staffordshire Coalfield Heaths SSSI

Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.

Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.

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

Nature recovery project: Purple Horizons; Inside the Burntwood built-up area; Priority habitat about 10 m away: Deciduous woodland; Open access land about 40 m away: Access Land - Combined Open Country, Registered Common Land and Section 16 Dedicated Land. MoD Byelaw, Section 28 Exclusions, Racecourses and Aerodromes and ECP Margin have been removed..

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 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: Lichfield
Application type: Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed
Postcode: WS7 3QY
Received: 24 Aug 2026
Validated: 25 Aug 2026
Ward: Chasetown
Parish: Burntwood
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 20 Oct 2026
Decision: Certificate of Lawfulness approved
Decision date: 8 Oct 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: John Reynolds

How this decision compares

Decided in 44 days from validation, about the council's usual 44 days. Approved, as 86% of extensions here are.

This one44d

Council44d

UK55d

95%decided within 8 weeks

86%approved

358decided in the last year

Plota live figures for extensions decided by Lichfield in the last twelve months, from validation. Lichfield decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Consultation: 15 Sept 2026
Comments by: 16 Sept 2026
Statutory expiry: 20 Oct 2026
Env. assessment: No

Lichfield

Planning Authority Score

7.1/10

Good

#57 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Lichfield is one of the fastest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #3 out of 296. Only 10% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (85%) than the national average (90%).

Among the fastest councils in England

for householder decisions

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Lichfield decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

82%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #250 of 296

85%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #251 of 296

97%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #3 of 296

10%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #3 of 296

66%

Minor dwellings approved

87 decided (1-9 homes)

86%

Major dwellings approved

7 decided (10+ homes)

62%

Change of use approved

39 decided

716

Total decisions

131 refused in the year to March 2026