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Land Adj 135 Birmingham Road Shenstone Woodend Lichfield Staffordshire

26/00222/CLECertificate of Lawfulness - ExistingRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 17 April 2026

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness refused1 reason for refusal

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (Existing): Use of site as a builders yard to store materials.

Received
19 February 2026
Ward
Bourne Vale
  1. Received19 Feb
  2. Validated20 Feb
  3. Consult.14 Apr
  4. Target17 Apr
  5. Decided17 Apr

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Land Adj 135 Birmingham Road Shenstone Woodend Lichfield Staffordshire. Lichfield has handled 352 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days, 8 days 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.

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 evidence submitted in support of the application is insufficiently precise and lacks the necessary clarity and corroboration to demonstrate, on the balance of probability, that the land has been used as a builder's yard for a continuous period of at least ten years. Whilst the submitted statutory declaration and aerial imagery indicate activity on the site, they do not conclusively demonstrate uninterrupted use of the land as a builder's yard for the required period. Furthermore, it is a matter of planning record that an enforcement notice was issued in 1997 on the same parcel of land in respect of the unauthorised use of this land. The effect of the enforcement notice prevents the accrual of immunity from enforcement action. As such, the passage of time cannot be relied upon to establish lawfulness. Accordingly, the Local Planning Authority is not satisfied that the use of the land as a builder's yard has become lawful, and a Certificate of Lawfulness is therefore refused Development Management Customer, Resident and Business Services IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU READ THE NOTES OVERLEAF

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Shenstone

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 February 2026
Consultation expiry
14 April 2026
Consultation start
2 April 2026
Consultation end
14 April 2026
Neighbour consultation start
3 March 2026
Neighbour consultation end
26 March 2026
Last date for comments
14 April 2026
Target decision date
17 April 2026

Applicant and agent

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

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
7
Constraints
6

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

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© 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.

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