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Land adjacent to Hawkesyard Estate, Rugeley Road, Armitage, Rugeley, Staffordshire, WS15 1PU

SCC/25/0120/CONConsultation with Staffordshire County CouncilRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 9 December 2025

Council decision: HOLDING OBJECTIONDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Lichfield District Council consultation in connection with an application to them for planning permission for the installation of a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) including associated infrastructure and landscaping (ref 25/01221/FULM).

Received
16 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Lichfield Rural West ED
  1. Received16 Oct
  2. Validated16 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target6 Nov
  5. Decided9 Dec

Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land adjacent to Hawkesyard Estate, Rugeley Road, Armitage, Rugeley, Staffordshire, WS15 1PU. Staffordshire has handled 222 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 5 days longer than Staffordshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 3 applications across Lichfield Rural West ED. We hold 516 applications in total for the WS15 postcode area.

86% of outline applications at Staffordshire County Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
WS15 1PU
Application type
Consultation with Staffordshire County Council
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Armitage with Handsacre
District
Lichfield District

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 October 2025
Target decision date
6 November 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

UPRN
MAN000000000014748
Documents
1

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: Lichfield
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers.

Also checked, none recorded (19)

flood storage 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 and heritage coasts.

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

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