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Highfield Newlands Lane Blithbury Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 3JD

26/00835/CLPRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 19 August 2026

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness refused

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed): Erection of a garage outbuilding and the replacement of existing garage doors to new front door and windows

Received
7 July 2026
Ward
Colton And The Ridwares
  1. Received7 Jul
  2. Validated24 Jul
  3. Consult.27 Jul
  4. Target
  5. Decided19 Aug

Decided in 26 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a garage at Highfield Newlands Lane Blithbury Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 3JD. Lichfield has handled 3,808 applications of this type. This one was decided in 26 days, 3 weeks 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 25 applications across Colton And The Ridwares. We hold 519 applications in total for the WS15 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
WS15 3JD
Parish
Colton

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 July 2026
Consultation end
27 July 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Elise Carroll

Additional information

Documents
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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, 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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