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Poplars 47 St Matthews Road Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 9EN

26/01024/CLEApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 23 October 2026

Council decision: Certificate of Lawfulness approved

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

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (Existing): Use of site to provide a total of 14 supported living units for adults (16+)

Received
13 August 2026
Public comments
0 · last counted 27 October 2026
Ward
Highfield
  1. Received13 Aug
  2. Validated1 Sep
  3. Consult.23 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided23 Oct

Decided in 52 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Poplars 47 St Matthews Road Burntwood Staffordshire WS7 9EN. Lichfield has handled 3,807 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 3 days longer than Lichfield's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 872 applications in total for the WS7 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
WS7 9EN
Parish
Burntwood

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 September 2026
Consultation end
23 October 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
Tom Watts

Additional information

Documents
10

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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