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Land West Of Stafford Martin Drive Castlefields Stafford Staffordshire

17/27731/FULFull ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 10 December 2018

Council decision: AllowedPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

a phased hybrid planning application for a residential-led, mixed use development comprising:Outline for the development of up to 1500 dwellings; new accesses; neighbourhood centre comprising retail, community building and primary care; two form entry primary school; pumping stations; substations; surface water attenuation ponds; noise attenuation bund; associated infrastructure; open space; landscaping and earthworks; including full details for the development of Phase 1 of 442 dwellings; new access from Martin Drive; internal roads; garages; driveways; parking spaces; pathways; pumping station; flood attenuation ponds; open space; associated infrastructure, landscaping and earthworks

Received
15 December 2017
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
44
Ward
Rowley
  1. Received15 Dec
  2. Validated12 Jan
  3. Consult.2 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided10 Dec

Decided in 332 days (council typically 91)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Land West Of Stafford Martin Drive Castlefields Stafford Staffordshire. Stafford has handled 3,847 applications of this type. This one was decided in 360 days, 38 weeks longer than Stafford's typical decision time. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 10 applications across Rowley.

85% of full applications at Stafford Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 13 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
1500
Parish
Doxey

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 January 2018
Consultation expiry
2 August 2018
Consultation end
2 August 2018
Neighbour consultation end
20 July 2018
Last date for comments
2 August 2018
Decision issued
22 May 2019
Permission expires
22 May 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO Mr Richard Shaw Wessex House Priors Walk East Borough Wimborne BH21 1PB United Kingdom

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
14 February 2018
Site notice end
7 February 2018

Additional information

Documents
821

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)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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

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© 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.

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