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Apollo Cinema Newport Road Stafford Staffordshire ST17 4BD

24/39793/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 13 February 2025

Council decision: AllowedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of use of a former cinema (Sui Generis) to a place of worship (Use Class F1)

Received
17 October 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Forebridge
  1. Received17 Oct
  2. Validated19 Dec
  3. Consult.6 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided13 Feb

Decided in 56 days (council typically 91)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Apollo Cinema Newport Road Stafford Staffordshire ST17 4BD. Stafford has handled 268 applications of this type. This one was decided in 119 days, 4 weeks longer than Stafford's typical decision time. The site is in the Stafford conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. 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.

92% of amendment 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 4BD
Application type
Change of Use
Parish
Stafford M B

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 December 2024
Consultation expiry
6 February 2025
Consultation end
6 February 2025
Neighbour consultation end
29 January 2025
Last date for comments
6 February 2025
Permission expires
13 February 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent address
FAO Mr C Timothy Three Spires House Station Road Lichfield WS13 6HX

Publicity

Site notice end
31 January 2025

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
  • Conservation area: Stafford
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Stafford Town Centre

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

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, 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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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