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Upper Heakley Farm, Ball Lane, Brown Edge, Staffordshire, ST6 8SW

DET/2025/0040Notification - Change of Use Prior ApprovalRefused
Prior approval

Refused on 2 December 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed change of use of two agricultural buildings into four dwellings

Received
7 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bagnall and Stanley,
  1. Received7 Oct
  2. Validated7 Oct
  3. Consult.6 Nov
  4. Target2 Dec
  5. Decided2 Dec

Decided in 56 days (council typically 70)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Upper Heakley Farm , Ball Lane , Brown Edge , Staffordshire , ST6 8SW. Staffordshire Moorlands has handled 173 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 2 weeks quicker than Staffordshire Moorlands's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 22 applications across Bagnall and Stanley,. We hold 1,470 applications in total for the ST6 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
ST6 8SW
Application type
Notification - Change of Use Prior Approval
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 October 2025
Consultation expiry
6 November 2025
Consultation start
14 October 2025
Consultation end
6 November 2025
Target decision date
2 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
62 , Uttoxeter , Staffordshire , ST14 8EU

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Staffordshire MoorlandsPart of the site
  • 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

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© 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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