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Babbage Building Hixon Industrial Estate Church Lane Hixon Stafford Staffordshire ST18 0PS

19/30565/FULFull ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 10 July 2019

Council decision: AllowedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed extension and alteration works to existing building, together with retention of the new vehicular access gates and proposed change of use of the building from Educational (Use Class C2) to Office use for a fire safety company with workshop for vehicle fleet (Use Class B1(a) and (c)) and ancillary trade counter.

Received
13 May 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Haywood And Hixon
  1. Received13 May
  2. Validated15 May
  3. Consult.10 Jul
  4. Target
  5. Decided10 Jul

Decided in 56 days (council typically 91)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Babbage Building Hixon Industrial Estate Church Lane Hixon Stafford Staffordshire ST18 0PS. Stafford has handled 3,847 applications of this type. This one was decided in 58 days, 5 weeks quicker than Stafford's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 23 applications across Haywood And Hixon. We hold 904 applications in total for the ST18 postcode area.

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

Postcode
ST18 0PS
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hixon

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 May 2019
Consultation expiry
24 July 2019
Consultation end
10 July 2019
Neighbour consultation end
10 July 2019
Last date for comments
24 July 2019
Permission expires
10 July 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO Mr Smith 2 Clat Registered Practice Grosvenor Court Wheelhouse Road Brereton Rugeley WS15 1LH

Publicity

Site notice end
24 July 2019

Additional information

Documents
33

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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