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Proposed Golf Course Woodseat Level Rocester Staffordshire

P/2014/00228Detailed Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 17 July 2014

Council decision: Conditional Approval - CommitteePlanning committee

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Construction of an 18 hole golf course and associated practice facilities, including the erection of an infill extension linking Woodseat Hall ruins to the existing outbuildings in order to form club house, erection of a detached building to form squash courts, erection of a detached building to form buggy park and refuse store, erection of two steel framed buildings to form golf buggy charging facility and maintenance store, siting of two rain shelters, conversion of existing bungalow to form workshop and stewards accommodation, demolition of existing JCB International Training Centre and existing steel framed storage shed, formation of attenuation and irrigation lakes, associated landscaping, earth works, drainage works and car parking, formation of tennis courts, and improvements to access to Hollington Road and B5030 - Amended Plans and Supporting Information, including Addendum to the Environmental Impact Assesssment Received on the 12/6/2014

Received
24 February 2014
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Abbey, Churnet
  1. Received24 Feb
  2. Validated7 Mar
  3. Consult.6 Jul
  4. Target
  5. Decided17 Jul

Decided in 132 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Proposed Golf Course Woodseat Level Rocester Staffordshire. East Staffordshire has handled 3,393 applications of this type. This one was decided in 143 days, 11 weeks longer than East Staffordshire's typical decision time. There have been 13 other applications at this address.

88% of full applications at East Staffordshire Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Detailed Planning Application
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Croxden, Rocester

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 March 2014
Consultation expiry
6 July 2014
Consultation start
7 March 2014
Consultation end
6 July 2014
Last date for comments
6 March 2014
Committee meeting
14 July 2014
Application expires
5 June 2014
Permission expires
16 July 2017

Planning decision

Statutory period
90 days

Additional information

Documents
143

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Source: East Staffordshire

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