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Burntwood Business Park Zone 3, Paget 12 Cinder Road Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 3FS

26/00156/COUChange of UseRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 20 March 2026

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

Proposal

Change of use from Class B2 General Industrial to Class E (d) Indoor Recreation (no external alterations)

Received
6 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Chasetown
  1. Received6 Feb
  2. Validated9 Feb
  3. Consult.3 Mar
  4. Target6 Apr
  5. Decided20 Mar

Decided in 39 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Burntwood Business Park Zone 3, Paget 12 Cinder Road Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 3FS. Lichfield has handled 352 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 7 days quicker than Lichfield's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Chasetown. We hold 873 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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Why it was refused

  1. The applicant has failed to provide any information to enable the Local Planning Authority to undertake a full and proper assessment of the proposal in respect to the town centre sequential test as set out in paragraph 91 of the National Planning Policy Framework and in respect to a marketing and viability appraisal as set out in Policy EMP1 of the Lichfield Local Plan Strategy to demonstrate that there is no demand for employment uses at the site and , or the site would be unviable for such uses.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
WS7 3FS
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Burntwood

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 February 2026
Consultation expiry
10 March 2026
Consultation start
10 February 2026
Consultation end
3 March 2026
Last date for comments
11 March 2026
Target decision date
6 April 2026
Permission expires
20 March 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent address
D2 Planning Limited The Annex 2 Oakhurst Road Stoke Bishop Bristol BS9 3HTQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
17 February 2026
Site notice end
10 March 2026

Additional information

Documents
9
Constraints
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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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