2 Mere Pits Cottages Elford Road Elford Tamworth Staffordshire B79 9BE
Refused on 23 July 2025
Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Erection of single storey detached annex building to form garden/games room and guest accommodation
- Received
- 9 June 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Lichfield District Council
- Ward
- Whittington And Streethay
- ReceivedReceived9 Jun
- ValidatedValidated10 Jun
- Consult.Consultation3 Jul
- TargetTarget Date5 Aug
- DecidedDecided23 Jul
Decided in 43 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application at 2 Mere Pits Cottages Elford Road Elford Tamworth Staffordshire B79 9BE. Lichfield has handled 1,745 applications of this type. This one was decided in 44 days, 5 days quicker than Lichfield's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 55 applications across Whittington And Streethay. We hold 606 applications in total for the B79 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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Application details
- Postcode
- B79 9BE
- Application type
- Full Application (Householder)
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Elford
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 10 June 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 17 July 2025
- Consultation start
- 10 June 2025
- Consultation end
- 3 July 2025
- Last date for comments
- 17 July 2025
- Target decision date
- 5 August 2025
- Permission expires
- 23 July 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- TIDY Architects Ltd 11 Aldergate Hopwas Tamworth B79 7DL
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 26 June 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 17 July 2025
- Site notice start
- 12 June 2025
- Site notice end
- 3 July 2025
Additional information
- Documents
- 13
- Constraints
- 6
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 2: Medium 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, 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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: Lichfield
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