Spring Cottage Farm Watling Street, Grendon, Atherstone, CV9 2PF Data via plota.co.uk

PAP/2025/0093 - Outline Planning Application Deferred at committee

Deferred at planning committee on 1 September 2025. No decision has been made yet.

Proposal

Outline planning application (including primary means of access from the A5 Watling Street, with all other matters reserved) for up to 200 new homes including associated landscaping, open space and ancillary infrastructure (with all existing buildings to be demolished) Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
4 Mar 2025
✓
Validated
14 Mar 2025
✓
Committee
1 Sept 2025
Decision
Not decided yet

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 28 Oct 2026; it is now day 593.

The consultation period closed on 30 May 2025.

Planning committee

Deferred by North Warwickshire Planning and Development Board on 1 Sept 2025.

Deferred

No officer report was published for this decision; this summary is from the committee minutes.

  • The committee noted the application and arranged a site visit before determination.

Source: Plota analysis of North Warwickshire's committee minutes, North Warwickshire Planning and Development Board minutes, 1 September 2025 .

Site constraints 6

Ancient woodland
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 Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.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.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Ancient woodlandCouncil 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 15 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
Outline Planning Application
Postcode
CV9 2PF
Received
4 Mar 2025
Validated
14 Mar 2025
Case officer
Show
Target decision
17 Oct 2025
Decision level
Committee
Agent
Lioncourt Strategic Land Limited

Decision outlook

Day 593, past the statutory target. 63% of outline applications in North Warwickshire are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 25 Oct 2026.

Day 593502 days past the 91-day target
42%decided within 8 weeks
59%approved
12%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

4comments received
41 objecting

1025% object · above the UK average of 74%

Last counted 25 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
18 Mar 2025
Comments by
30 May 2025
Statutory expiry
13 Jun 2025
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