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The Woodlands Drayton Lane Drayton Bassett Tamworth Staffordshire B78 3TS

25/01012/REMApproval of Reserved MattersRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 27 October 2025

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)3 reasons for refusal

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Proposal

Section 73 application to vary condition 2 and 4 permission 25/00625/REM to allow the addition of basements to the approved dwellings

Received
13 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bourne Vale
  1. Received13 Aug
  2. Validated1 Sep
  3. Consult.24 Sep
  4. Target27 Oct
  5. Decided27 Oct

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at The Woodlands Drayton Lane Drayton Bassett Tamworth Staffordshire B78 3TS. Lichfield has handled 457 applications of this type. This one was decided in 75 days, 4 weeks longer than Lichfield's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 31 applications across Bourne Vale. We hold 208 applications in total for the B78 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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Why it was refused

  1. The proposed development fails to have a satisfactory design relationship with its surroundings by virtue of its scale, massing and design by virtue of its prominence and visual and urbanising impact on the rural character of the area, and the immediate surroundings by way of the introduction of an additional of this rural basement and projecting balcony which impact on the openness contrary to the requirements of and 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 District Design Code (SU4.1) and the National Planning Policy Framework.
  2. Insufficient information has been provided in terms of the proposed levels and true extent of the engineering operations required to create the basement and balcony arrangement given the supporting statement/information indicates that there is no change in levels when there is obviously a large cubic volume of material being excavated and no information as to where this material is being redeposited or whether it is taken off site given the proposed the cross section indicated that the materials will be remodelled across the whole of the site. Without any details showing how this will impact on levels, any retaining structures, contours and land stability, or resulting design/layout, the proposal is considered contrary Policies CP3, (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 and the National Planning Policy Framework -2- Application No: 25/01012/REM
  3. Insufficient information has been provided on the impact on and the potential long term conflict between the existing trees (TPO) and hedges and the built form/ engineering operations across the site create by the new proposal. The cross section provided indicates remodelling and land level changes across the site, however lacks detail and how this level change would interfere with existing tree cover and oxygen to the existing root systems. The approved tree protection plan previously approved indicated no dig zones around the patio where the new basement is to be created and no additional details have been provided to overcome any of this potential harm, therefore the development is considered contrary to Policies, CP3 (Delivering Sustainable Development) , BE1 (High Quality Development) NR4 (Trees Woodlands and Hedges) of the Lichfield local Plan Strategy, Trees and Development SPD, BS5837:2012, Trees, Landscape and Development SPD and the National Planning Policy Framework.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
B78 3TS
Application type
Approval of Reserved Matters
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Drayton Bassett

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 September 2025
Consultation expiry
2 October 2025
Consultation start
1 September 2025
Consultation end
24 September 2025
Last date for comments
2 October 2025
Target decision date
27 October 2025
Permission expires
27 October 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Cerda Planning Limited 52 Lyndon Road Sutton Coldfield B73 6BS

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
11 September 2025
Site notice end
2 October 2025

Additional information

Documents
11
Constraints
5

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.

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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    17 Jun

    Section 73 application to permission of 25/00625/REM

    ApprovedReserved matters26/00708/REM

Source: Lichfield

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