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Squirrel Barn Sandon Lane Milwich Stafford Staffordshire ST18 0EG

25/40886/LDCLawful Development Certificate_ExistingRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 17 February 2026

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate - Demolition of former agricultural building and erection of residential building in similar form; subsequent extensions and alterations to include orangery, lean-to shed on eastern gable, and front porch; erection of timber gates to access track; erection of timber outbuildings; and erection of garden fencing and patio

Received
14 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Milwich
  1. Received14 Jul
  2. Validated14 Jul
  3. Consult.20 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided17 Feb

Decided in 218 days (council typically 91)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Squirrel Barn Sandon Lane Milwich Stafford Staffordshire ST18 0EG. Stafford has handled 268 applications of this type. This one was decided in 218 days, 18 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 50 applications across Milwich. We hold 904 applications in total for the ST18 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
ST18 0EG
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate_Existing
Parish
Milwich

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 July 2025
Consultation expiry
20 August 2025
Consultation end
20 August 2025
Last date for comments
18 August 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Heritage Matters
Agent address
FAO: Dr David Hickie 7 Hunters Walk Witherley Atherstone CV9 3SU United Kingdom

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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

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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2025
    14 Nov

    Change of use from dwellinghouse to holiday let

    PendingApplication25/41424/FUL

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