Land East Of Greenway Hall Road, Staffordshire, ST9 9PW Data via plota.co.uk

Refused 25/PIP/00270
Date received
week of 11 Aug 2025
Decision date
week of 17 Nov 2025
Postcode
ST9 9PW

Description

Erection of 3-6 dwellings (Permission in Principle) Data via plota.co.uk

Last checked

Planning committee

Decided by Stoke on Trent Development Management on 19 Nov 2025.

Refused

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised refusal because the homes would be inappropriate in the Green Belt and in an unsustainable location.
  • People raised concerns about the Green Belt, wildlife, highways, flooding, infrastructure and nearby residents’ living conditions.
  • The committee refused the application for the reasons set out in the report.
Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, objections, committee discussion and decision.

Source: Plota analysis of Stoke on Trent's committee minutes of 19 Nov 2025.

Site constraints 5

Air quality management area: Stoke On Trent Air Quality Management Area 2011
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 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Inside the Stoke-on-Trent built-up area; Green belt about 53 m away: Stoke-on-Trent; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 4, 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 26 September 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 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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Stoke on Trent
Planning Authority Score
1.4/10
Poor
#283 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Stoke on Trent is one of the slowest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #286 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 75% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (91%) than the national average (90%).

Among the slowest councils in England
for householder decisions
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Stoke on Trent decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
88%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #162 of 296
91%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #181 of 296
28%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #286 of 296
75%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #294 of 296
67%
Minor dwellings approved
27 decided (1-9 homes)
88%
Major dwellings approved
17 decided (10+ homes)
79%
Change of use approved
68 decided
475
Total decisions
58 refused in the year to March 2026