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Churchfield Cottage Smithy Lane Longdon Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 4QH

25/00494/CLPCertificate of Lawfulness - ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 20 May 2025

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness approvedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (proposed) : Erection of outbuilding to be used as a domestic workshop/store

Received
18 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Longdon
  1. Received18 Apr
  2. Validated23 Apr
  3. Consult.26 Apr
  4. Target18 Jun
  5. Decided20 May

Decided in 27 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for an outbuilding at Churchfield Cottage Smithy Lane Longdon Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 4QH. Lichfield has handled 457 applications of this type. This one was decided in 32 days, 2 weeks quicker 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 Longdon. We hold 513 applications in total for the WS15 postcode area.

75% of outline 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 4QH
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Longdon

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 April 2025
Consultation expiry
26 April 2025
Consultation start
23 April 2025
Consultation end
26 April 2025
Last date for comments
26 April 2025
Target decision date
18 June 2025
Permission expires
20 May 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
CT Planning Three Spires House Station Road Lichfield WS13 6HX

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
1
Constraints
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Lichfield
  • 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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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: Lichfield

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