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Elswick House Fisherwick Road Whittington Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 9LH

25/00511/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 4 July 2025

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Conversion of former pre-school to ancillary residential use and associated works. Including new boundary wall

Received
23 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Whittington And Streethay
  1. Received23 Apr
  2. Validated21 May
  3. Consult.13 Jun
  4. Target16 Jul
  5. Decided4 Jul

Decided in 44 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Elswick House Fisherwick Road Whittington Lichfield Staffordshire WS14 9LH. Lichfield has handled 352 applications of this type. This one was decided in 72 days, 3 weeks longer than Lichfield's typical decision time. The site is in the Whittington conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 55 applications across Whittington And Streethay. We hold 1,085 applications in total for the WS14 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
WS14 9LH
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Whittington And Fisherwick

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 May 2025
Consultation expiry
3 July 2025
Consultation start
23 May 2025
Consultation end
13 June 2025
Last date for comments
3 July 2025
Target decision date
16 July 2025
Permission expires
4 July 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Georgian House 24 Bird Street Lichfield WS13 6PT

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
12 June 2025
Advertisement expiry
3 July 2025
Site notice start
9 June 2025
Site notice end
30 June 2025

Additional information

Documents
15
Constraints
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (20)

flood storage areas, 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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© 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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