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Bromley Hayes Garden Centre Shaw Lane Rileyhill Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8HW

24/00999/FULMFull Application (Major)Refused
Full

Refused on 2 January 2025

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)4 reasons for refusal

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of the existing building consisting of a retail garden centre (Class E) to facilitate the redevelopment of the site to provide a mixed use of offices, plant storage and ancillary industrial and Research and Development uses (Resubmission of Planning Application 22/01126/FULM).

Received
13 September 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Armitage With Handsacre
  1. Received13 Sep
  2. Validated27 Sep
  3. Consult.27 Oct
  4. Target27 Dec
  5. Decided2 Jan

Decided in 97 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Bromley Hayes Garden Centre Shaw Lane Rileyhill Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8HW. Lichfield has handled 1,745 applications of this type. This one was decided in 111 days, 9 weeks longer than Lichfield's typical decision time. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 35 applications across Armitage With Handsacre. We hold 511 applications in total for the WS13 postcode area.

88% of full applications at Lichfield District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Why it was refused

  1. The scale, mass and design of the proposed office building and workshop fails to have a satisfactory relationship with its surroundings and represents an overbearing and incongruous form of development which would fail to be in keeping with the surroundings of the site. Therefore, the proposals would result in overdevelopment of the site and would be in conflict with Core Policy 3 (Delivering Sustainable Development) and Policy BE1 (High Quality Development) of the Lichfield District Local Plan Strategy (2015), guidance contained within the Sustainable Design Supplementary Planning Document, the Lichfield Design Code, the National Design Guide, the National Model Design Code and the National Planning Policy Framework.
  2. The applicant has failed to provide sufficient information in respect to the noise generated through the operation of the site for the Local Planning Authority to make a fully informed assessment of the impacts of the proposal on the amenity of adjacent residences. The scheme therefore fails to comply with the requirements of policies CP3 (Delivering Sustainable Development) and BE1 (High Quality Development) of the Lichfield Local Plan Strategy (2015) and the National Planning Policy Framework.
  3. The applicant has failed to provide sufficient information in respect to the impact of the proposed development on flood risk and drainage matters for the Local Planning Authority to make a fully informed assessment of the drainage and flooding impacts of the proposal, contrary to the requirements of Core Policy 3 (Delivering Sustainable Development) of the Lichfield Local Plan Strategy (2015) and the National Planning Policy Framework.
  4. The proposal fails to demonstrate that the development would not detrimentally compromise trees and would result in the loss of mature trees. The trees and hedgerows provide a positive visual contribution to the locality and its loss would have a significant detrimental impact on the character of the area contrary to the requirements of Policies BE1 (High Quality Development) and NR4 (Trees, Woodland and Hedgerows) of the Lichfield Local Plan Strategy (2015), the Trees, Landscaping and Development Supplementary Planning Document and the National Planning Policy Framework.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
WS13 8HW
Application type
Full Application (Major)
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Kings Bromley

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 September 2024
Consultation expiry
7 November 2024
Consultation start
4 October 2024
Consultation end
27 October 2024
Neighbour consultation start
7 October 2024
Neighbour consultation end
30 October 2024
Last date for comments
7 November 2024
Target decision date
27 December 2024
Permission expires
2 January 2028

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
NextPhase 8 Bore Street Lichfield WS13 6LL

Planning decision

Case officer
Clare Saint
Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
17 October 2024
Advertisement expiry
7 November 2024
Site notice start
10 October 2024
Site notice end
31 October 2024

Appeal history

3360606
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 4 September 2025Dev Type: Minor offices/R&D/light industryReason: Refusal

Additional information

Documents
55
Constraints
9

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

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Associated applications

  1. 2024
    13 Sep

    Demolition of the existing building consisting of a retail garden centre (Class E) to facilitate the…

    This applicationRefusedFull24/00999/FULM
  2. 2022
    26 Jul

    Demolition of the existing building consisting of a retail garden centre (Class E) and redevelopment of the…

    RefusedFull Application (Major)Part of22/01126/FULM

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