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Higher Whitemore Farm, Congleton Road, Biddulph, Staffordshire, CW12 3NF

DET/2023/0021Notification - Change of Use Prior ApprovalApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 15 September 2023

Council decision: Prior Approval GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed: Change of Use of Agricultural Buildings to Dwellinghouses

Received
19 July 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received19 Jul
  2. Validated19 Jul
  3. Consult.24 Aug
  4. Target13 Sep
  5. Decided15 Sep

Decided in 58 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Higher Whitemore Farm , Congleton Road , Biddulph , Staffordshire , CW12 3NF. Staffordshire Moorlands has handled 173 applications of this type. This one was decided in 58 days, 12 days quicker than Staffordshire Moorlands's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,689 applications in total for the CW12 postcode area.

81% of amendment applications at Staffordshire Moorlands District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 10 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
CW12 3NF
Application type
Notification - Change of Use Prior Approval
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 July 2023
Consultation expiry
24 August 2023
Consultation start
20 July 2023
Consultation end
24 August 2023
Target decision date
13 September 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
47 , Mow Cop , Stoke on Trent , Staffordshire , ST7 4PG

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
17

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Green belt: Staffordshire Moorlands
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

Source: Staffordshire Moorlands

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