Red Lion Cottage, Smithy Bank, Alton, Staffordshire, ST10 4AD
Approved on 16 October 2025
Council decision: Listed Building Consent - ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Listed building consent to take down and rebuild the two chimneys in brick to the same form profile as exisitng.
- Received
- 9 May 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- ReceivedReceived9 May
- ValidatedValidated20 May
- Consult.Consultation25 Jun
- TargetTarget Date15 Jul
- DecidedDecided16 Oct
Decided in 149 days (council typically 70)
About this application
This is a heritage application at Red Lion Cottage , Smithy Bank , Alton , Staffordshire , ST10 4AD. Staffordshire Moorlands has handled 323 applications of this type. This one was decided in 160 days, 13 weeks longer than Staffordshire Moorlands's typical decision time. The site is in the Alton and Farley conservation area, with 16 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 2,065 applications in total for the ST10 postcode area.
95% of heritage 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
- ST10 4AD
- Application type
- Listed Building Consent - Alteration
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- 16 Villa Road, Cheddleton, Leek, Staffordshire, ST13 7EA
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 20 May 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 25 June 2025
- Consultation start
- 21 May 2025
- Consultation end
- 25 June 2025
- Target decision date
- 15 July 2025
- Permission expires
- 15 October 2028
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 14
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Alton and Farley
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Possibly incomplete for this council: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (19)
flood storage areas, 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.
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 20192 Jan
Proposed replacement windows on the front elevation and amendment to the previously approved replacement…
ApprovedListed building consentSMD/2019/0001 - 20156 Jul
Proposed infill extension, external and internal alterations including replacement windows and recovering of…
ApprovedHouseholderSMD/2015/0444 - 20156 Jul
Listed building consent for proposed infill extension, external and internal alterations including…
ApprovedListed building consentSMD/2015/0449
Source: Staffordshire Moorlands
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