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HM Prison Stafford 54 Gaol Road Stafford Staffordshire ST16 3AW

26/42166/LBCApproved

Approved on 6 November 2026

Council decision: Allowed

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

Proposal

Install a total of eight new security ventilation louvers across Wings B, D, E, and F, and replace four existing windows in Wings E and F with new safety-enhanced secure cell windows, alongside associated internal cell conversion works.

Received
30 April 2026
  1. Received30 Apr
  2. Validated7 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided6 Nov

Decided in 91 days

About this application

This is a planning application for window replacement at HM Prison Stafford 54 Gaol Road Stafford Staffordshire ST16 3AW. Stafford has handled 6,502 applications of this type. This one was decided in 91 days. The site is in the Foregate and St George's conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 590 applications in total for the ST16 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
ST16 3AW

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 August 2026

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Foregate & St. Georges
  • 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.

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.

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