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74 Woodhouses Road Woodhouses Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 9EJ

26/00047/CLECertificate of Lawfulness - ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 9 March 2026

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness approvedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (Existing): Installation of drainage works represents a commencement of development on site under 20/00203/FUL

Received
13 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Highfield
  1. Received13 Jan
  2. Validated20 Jan
  3. Consult.19 Mar
  4. Target17 Mar
  5. Decided9 Mar

Decided in 48 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 74 Woodhouses Road Woodhouses Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 9EJ. Lichfield has handled 352 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 6 days longer than Lichfield's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 26 applications across Highfield. We hold 872 applications in total for the WS7 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
WS7 9EJ
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Burntwood

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 January 2026
Consultation expiry
19 March 2026
Consultation start
29 January 2026
Consultation end
19 March 2026
Neighbour consultation start
29 January 2026
Neighbour consultation end
21 February 2026
Last date for comments
19 March 2026
Target decision date
17 March 2026
Permission expires
9 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
RMS Designs 16 Williams Close Short Heath Willenhall Walsall WV12 4QP

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
7
Constraints
10

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.

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

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.

Source: Lichfield

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