Hillside, Middle Lane, Cold Hatton Heath, Telford, Shropshire, TF6 6QA Data via plota.co.uk

Refused TWC/2025/0447 - Section 191 Established Use
Council
Telford 7.8/10
Date received
around 3 Jul 2025
Date validated
3 Jul 2025
Decision date
14 Aug 2025
Postcode
TF6 6QA
Type
Section 191 Established Use

Description

Application under Section 191 for a Certificate of Lawfulness for an existing use for change of use from agriculture land to private garden land Data via plota.co.uk

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How this decision compares

Decided in 42 days from validation, about the council's usual 42 days. Refused, as 9% of lawful development certificates here are.

100%decided within 8 weeks
91%approved
50decided in the last year

Plota live figures for lawful development certificates decided by Telford in the last twelve months, from validation. Telford decision record →

Site constraints 1

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), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
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.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 3 October 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.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £460,000 in February 2022. Detached house, freehold.

18 February 2022£460,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Telford
Planning Authority Score
7.8/10
Good
#31 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Change of use

Telford is one of the fastest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #6 out of 296. Only 12% 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 (91%) than the national average (90%).

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Telford decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
91%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #102 of 296
91%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #183 of 296
96%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #6 of 296
12%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #6 of 296
77%
Minor dwellings approved
57 decided (1-9 homes)
86%
Major dwellings approved
14 decided (10+ homes)
86%
Change of use approved
43 decided
571
Total decisions
54 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.