Whitby House Hempstalls Lane Newcastle Under Lyme Staffordshire ST5 0SN
Approved on 5 November 2025
Council decision: PermitDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Proposed change of use from light industrial to Day Nursery
- Received
- 2 September 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 3
- Ward
- Cross Heath
- ReceivedReceived2 Sep
- ValidatedValidated2 Sep
- Consult.Consultation28 Oct
- TargetTarget Date28 Oct
- DecidedDecided5 Nov
Decided in 64 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Whitby House Hempstalls Lane Newcastle Under Lyme Staffordshire ST5 0SN. Newcastle under Lyme has handled 857 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 8 days longer than Newcastle under Lyme's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Cross Heath. We hold 1,190 applications in total for the ST5 postcode area.
91% of full applications at Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- ST5 0SN
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 2 September 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 28 October 2025
- Consultation start
- 14 October 2025
- Consultation end
- 28 October 2025
- Target decision date
- 28 October 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 126 Bevington Rd Aston Birmingham B6 6HX
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 19 September 2025
- Site notice end
- 10 October 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14297632
- Constraints
- 8
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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.
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Source: Newcastle under Lyme
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