Bird Grove Farm, Sandon Road, Hilderstone, Staffordshire, ST15 8SL
Refused on 13 March 2026
Council decision: Planning Permission - RefusedPlanning committee2 reasons for refusal
Proposal
Take down and rebuild existing agricultural unit with extension to rear to form secure store area for implements
- Received
- 21 November 2025
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- ReceivedReceived21 Nov
- ValidatedValidated21 Nov
- Consult.Consultation30 Dec
- TargetTarget Date16 Jan
- DecidedDecided13 Mar
Decided in 112 days (council typically 70)
About this application
This is a full planning application for an extension at Bird Grove Farm , Sandon Road , Hilderstone , Staffordshire , ST15 8SL. Staffordshire Moorlands has handled 2,339 applications of this type. This one was decided in 112 days, 6 weeks longer than Staffordshire Moorlands's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 874 applications in total for the ST15 postcode area.
80% of full 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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Why it was refused
- The site is in the Open Countryside where the construction of new buildings is regarded as inappropriate unless the rural location can be justified. In this case, the building is not considered to be necessary for agricultural use, nor appropriate in scale to the holding it would serve. Therefore, the proposed development is not acceptable in principle and contrary to Policy SS10 and DC1 of the Staffordshire Moorlands Local Plan 2024 and the NPPF.
- Owing to the scale of the proposed development over and above the size of the existing building, the proposed development is unacceptable in terms of design and appearance, and would be an unnecessary incursion into the open countryside, contrary to Staffordshire Moorlands Local Plan Polices SS1, SS10, DC1, and DC3 and the NPPF.
From the council's decision notice.
Application details
- Postcode
- ST15 8SL
- Application type
- Full - MINOR
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- 3, The Island, Upper Tean, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire Moorlands, ST10 4JE
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 21 November 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 30 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 9 December 2025
- Consultation end
- 30 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 16 January 2026
- Committee meeting
- 26 February 2026
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 13
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Possibly incomplete for this council: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.
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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.
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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Source: Staffordshire Moorlands
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