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The Old School House Ellenhall Road Ellenhall Stafford Staffordshire ST21 6JQ

20/32736/FULFull ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 10 December 2020

Council decision: AllowedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Alterations and extensions and change of use from former school house to residential

Received
10 July 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Seighford And Church Eaton
  1. Received10 Jul
  2. Validated27 Jul
  3. Consult.27 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided10 Dec

Decided in 136 days (council typically 91)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at The Old School House Ellenhall Road Ellenhall Stafford Staffordshire ST21 6JQ. Stafford has handled 3,847 applications of this type. This one was decided in 153 days, 9 weeks longer than Stafford's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 27 applications across Seighford And Church Eaton. We hold 364 applications in total for the ST21 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
ST21 6JQ
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ellenhall

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 July 2020
Consultation expiry
27 October 2020
Consultation end
27 October 2020
Neighbour consultation end
19 August 2020
Last date for comments
9 September 2020
Permission expires
10 December 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO Mr B Blakeman 15A The Garden House Whitmore Road The Westlands Newcastle-under-lyme ST5 3LY

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
9 September 2020
Site notice end
2 September 2020

Additional information

Documents
18

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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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