Foxearth Sports Prestige The Hough Retail Park Lichfield Road Stafford Staffordshire ST17 4LU
Approved on 13 June 2024
Council decision: AllowedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use from mixed use car showroom/ Cafe to restaurant with a drive thru lane, together with minor external works
- Received
- 3 October 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Stafford Borough Council
- Ward
- Forebridge
- ReceivedReceived3 Oct
- ValidatedValidated2 Nov
- Consult.Consultation7 Feb
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided13 Jun
Decided in 224 days (council typically 91)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Foxearth Sports Prestige The Hough Retail Park Lichfield Road Stafford Staffordshire ST17 4LU. Stafford has handled 3,847 applications of this type. This one was decided in 254 days, 23 weeks longer than Stafford's typical decision time. The site is in the Forebridge conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 20 applications across Forebridge. We hold 2,183 applications in total for the ST17 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
- ST17 4LU
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Stafford M B
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 2 November 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 7 February 2024
- Consultation end
- 7 February 2024
- Neighbour consultation end
- 29 November 2023
- Last date for comments
- 4 December 2023
- Permission expires
- 13 June 2027
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- C/O Mr Chris Jones Broadwall House 21 Broadwall London SE1 9PL
Publicity
- Site notice end
- 30 November 2023
Additional information
- Documents
- 46
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: ForebridgePart of the site
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage 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.
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