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Academy Special Converter, The Fountains High School, Bitham Lane

P/2025/01375Discharge Of ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 29 July 2026

Council decision: Approved - DelegatedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Discharge of condition number 12 of P/2024/00794 relating to Application under Section 73 to vary Conditions 2 and 3 of planning permission P/2022/01412 for the erection of a single storey block to provide four classrooms, a detached building to provide sports hall with changing rooms, a multi-use games area with perimeter fencing, and associated works including improved drop off facilities, new staff car parking area, alterations to vehicular access off Bitham Court, servicing and landscaping to move the Sports Hall building 800mm off the boundary with De Ferrers for construction purposes, move the MUGA 800mm, replace the colour of cladding to Moorland Green and alterations to the materials on changing room block to remove render panels and increase the area of cedar timber panels.

Received
3 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Stretton
Agent
Q+A Planning Ltd
  1. Received3 Dec
  2. Validated3 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target28 Jan
  5. Decided29 Jul

Decided in 238 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at ACADEMY SPECIAL CONVERTER, THE FOUNTAINS HIGH SCHOOL, BITHAM LANE. East Staffordshire has handled 120 applications of this type. This one was decided in 238 days, 25 weeks longer than East Staffordshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 50 applications across Stretton. We hold 2,945 applications in total for the DE13 postcode area.

99% of discharge of condition 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

Postcode
DE13 0HB
Application type
Discharge Of Condition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Stretton CP

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 December 2025
Consultation expiry
2 January 2026
Target decision date
28 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Q+A Planning Ltd

Planning decision

Case officer
Gareth Elliott

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: East Staffordshire

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