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First Floor 42 - 44 High Street Stone Staffordshire ST15 8AU

23/37231/POROffices to Residential Prior ApprovalRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 31 July 2023

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from Use Class E to Use Class C3 i.e. 1no. 1 bedroom apartment. The apartment is to be accessed from the existing front door which is located on the high street. Existing signage is to be removed i.e. the horizontal signage below the 1st floor windows and the signage surrounding the entrance door. The front door and windows are to be retained under this application. If necessary, thermal upgrades to windows are to be made by installing new windows behind the existing in order to retain the existing aesthetic. Any further changes to the front door and/or windows are be made under a separate application. Internal alterations include the reorganisation of the plan arrangement and any other upgrades as deemed necessary by Building Control e.g. thermal, fire or sound upgrades etc.

Received
10 March 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
St Michaels And Stonefield
  1. Received10 Mar
  2. Validated20 Mar
  3. Consult.2 May
  4. Target
  5. Decided31 Jul

Decided in 133 days (council typically 91)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at First Floor 42 - 44 High Street Stone Staffordshire ST15 8AU. Stafford has handled 465 applications of this type. This one was decided in 143 days, 7 weeks longer than Stafford's typical decision time. The site is in the Stone conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 42 applications across St Michaels And Stonefield. We hold 872 applications in total for the ST15 postcode area.

68% of outline 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
ST15 8AU
Application type
Offices to Residential Prior Approval
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Stone Town

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 March 2023
Consultation expiry
8 May 2023
Consultation end
2 May 2023
Neighbour consultation end
14 April 2023
Last date for comments
8 May 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO Mr P Maguire The Byre 15 Lakesedge Stone Staffordshire ST15 0BF

Publicity

Site notice end
8 May 2023

Additional information

Documents
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Stone
  • Listed building: Grade II: 48, High StreetOn or next to this site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, 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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© 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: Stafford

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