Shenstone Business Park Lynn Lane Shenstone Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 0SB Data via plota.co.uk

26/00781/FUL - Full Application Refused

Proposal

Erection of a industrial unit B8 (Storage and Distribution) and associated works Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
25 Jun 2026
✓
Validated
26 Jun 2026
✓
Consultation
2 Jul 2026
✗
Refused
18 Aug 2026
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 18 Aug 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 19 Aug 2026

Documents 23

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 6

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 ↗
Also on the record
Nature recovery project: Purple Horizons; Flood defence about 13 m from the postcode pin (natural high ground, designed for a 1 in 25 year flood); Inside the Shenstone built-up area; Green belt about 77 m away: Birmingham; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
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 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
Full Application
Postcode
WS14 0SB
Received
25 Jun 2026
Validated
26 Jun 2026
Ward
Shenstone
Parish
Shenstone
Case officer
Show
Target decision
21 Aug 2026
Decision
Refuse
Decision date
18 Aug 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 53 days from validation, about the council's usual 54 days. Refused, as 24% of commercial and major works here are.

84%decided within 8 weeks
76%approved
27decided in the last year

Plota live figures for commercial and major works decided by Lichfield in the last twelve months, from validation. Lichfield decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
2 Jul 2026
Comments by
31 Jul 2026
Site or press notice
10 Jul 2026
Statutory expiry
21 Aug 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
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
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