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8 Old Wood Farm Blithbury Road Colton Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 3HW

26/00402/ABNAgricultural BuildingApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 22 April 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior Notification: Erection of an agricultural produce and machinery storage building

Received
24 March 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Colton And The Ridwares
  1. Received24 Mar
  2. Validated25 Mar
  3. Consult.10 Apr
  4. Target22 Apr
  5. Decided22 Apr

Decided in 28 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a planning application at 8 Old Wood Farm Blithbury Road Colton Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 3HW. Lichfield has handled 77 applications of this type. This one was decided in 29 days, 3 weeks quicker than Lichfield's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 25 applications across Colton And The Ridwares. We hold 513 applications in total for the WS15 postcode area.

83% of all 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
WS15 3HW
Application type
Agricultural Building
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Colton

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 March 2026
Consultation expiry
10 April 2026
Consultation start
27 March 2026
Consultation end
10 April 2026
Last date for comments
10 April 2026
Target decision date
22 April 2026
Permission expires
22 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
National Farmers Union 4 Blake Court Cobbett Road Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 3GR

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Documents
2
Constraints
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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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