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Former Debenhams Bakers Lane Lichfield Staffordshire

25/01592/COUMSection 73 (major)Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 3 March 2026

Council decision: ApprovePlanning committee15 conditions

Proposal

Section 73 application to permission of 24/01199/COUM to vary conditions 2 (Approved Plans) , 5 (Cycle facilities) , 7 (Material details), 11 (Soft landscaping details), 12 (Landscape management and maintenance plan), 13 (Hard landscaping details), 15 (Details of glazing panels) and 16 (Details of Surface materials and boundary treatments) to allow amendments to the design of the scheme and to provide details required by some conditions in order to update them to compliance conditions.

Received
23 December 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Stowe
  1. Received23 Dec
  2. Validated29 Dec
  3. Consult.5 Feb
  4. Target30 Mar
  5. Decided3 Mar

Decided in 64 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Former Debenhams Bakers Lane Lichfield Staffordshire. Lichfield has handled 352 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 3 weeks longer than Lichfield's typical decision time. The site is in the Lichfield City conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Stowe.

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

Application type
Section 73 (major)
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Lichfield City

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 December 2025
Consultation expiry
26 February 2026
Consultation start
15 January 2026
Consultation end
5 February 2026
Neighbour consultation start
19 February 2026
Last date for comments
26 February 2026
Target decision date
30 March 2026
Committee meeting
2 March 2026
Permission expires
3 March 2031

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Savills (UK) Limited Belvedere 12 Booth Street Manchester M2 4AW

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
5 February 2026
Advertisement expiry
26 February 2026
Site notice start
3 February 2026
Site notice end
24 February 2026

Additional information

Documents
37
Constraints
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Lichfield City
  • 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, listed buildings, 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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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.

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