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Land At Sheepwash Farm Fisherwick Road Fisherwick Whittington Lichfield

25/00950/SCREEScreening OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 13 August 2025

Council decision: Screening OpinionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Screening Opinion: Proposed development of up to 270 houses, creation of a public open space and associated infrastructure.

Received
29 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Whittington And Streethay
  1. Received29 Jul
  2. Validated30 Jul
  3. Consult.7 Aug
  4. Target20 Aug
  5. Decided13 Aug

Decided in 14 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land At Sheepwash Farm Fisherwick Road Fisherwick Whittington Lichfield. Lichfield has handled 457 applications of this type. This one was decided in 15 days, 5 weeks quicker than Lichfield's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 55 applications across Whittington And Streethay.

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

Application type
Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
270
Parish
Whittington And Fisherwick

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 July 2025
Consultation expiry
7 August 2025
Consultation start
4 August 2025
Consultation end
7 August 2025
Last date for comments
7 August 2025
Target decision date
20 August 2025
Permission expires
13 August 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Harris Lamb Planning Consultancy 4 Brindleyplace Birmingham B1 2LG

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Documents
0
Constraints
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Green belt: Lichfield

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

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© 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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