Rugeley Horizon School Blithbury Road Blithbury Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 3JQ
Approved on 5 December 2023
Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Change of use of school accommodation buildings to education use (Class F1) and associated external alterations
- Received
- 13 October 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Lichfield District Council
- Ward
- Colton And The Ridwares
- ReceivedReceived13 Oct
- ValidatedValidated14 Oct
- Consult.Consultation26 Nov
- TargetTarget Date9 Dec
- DecidedDecided5 Dec
Decided in 52 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at Rugeley Horizon School Blithbury Road Blithbury Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 3JQ. Lichfield has handled 352 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 4 days longer than Lichfield's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 25 applications across Colton And The Ridwares. We hold 513 applications in total for the WS15 postcode area.
79% of amendment applications at Lichfield District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- WS15 3JQ
- Application type
- Change of Use
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Mavesyn Ridware
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 14 October 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 1 December 2023
- Consultation start
- 3 November 2023
- Consultation end
- 26 November 2023
- Neighbour consultation start
- 6 November 2023
- Neighbour consultation end
- 29 November 2023
- Last date for comments
- 1 December 2023
- Target decision date
- 9 December 2023
- Permission expires
- 5 December 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Pembroke House 15 Pembroke Road Bristol BS8 3BA
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 10 November 2023
- Site notice end
- 1 December 2023
Additional information
- Documents
- 18
- Constraints
- 8
Site constraints
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.
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.
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