St Chads Church Church Drive Hopwas Tamworth Staffordshire B78 3AL
Approved on 10 March 2026
Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions
Proposal
Change of use of agricultural land to burial ground (cemetery) and the removal of a section of existing hedge
- Received
- 23 January 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Lichfield District Council
- Ward
- Whittington And Streethay
- ReceivedReceived23 Jan
- ValidatedValidated26 Jan
- Consult.Consultation19 Feb
- TargetTarget Date23 Mar
- DecidedDecided10 Mar
Decided in 43 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at St Chads Church Church Drive Hopwas Tamworth Staffordshire B78 3AL. Lichfield has handled 352 applications of this type. This one was decided in 46 days, 3 days quicker than Lichfield's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 55 applications across Whittington And Streethay. We hold 208 applications in total for the B78 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
- B78 3AL
- Application type
- Change of Use
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Wigginton And Hopwas
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 26 January 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 26 February 2026
- Consultation start
- 27 January 2026
- Consultation end
- 19 February 2026
- Last date for comments
- 26 February 2026
- Target decision date
- 23 March 2026
- Permission expires
- 10 March 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Georgian House 24 Bird Street Lichfield WS13 6PT
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 5 February 2026
- Advertisement expiry
- 26 February 2026
- Site notice start
- 4 February 2026
- Site notice end
- 25 February 2026
Additional information
- Documents
- 15
- Constraints
- 6
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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 (22)
flood storage areas, conservation 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.
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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