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Land North West of Whitmore Road and South of Newcastle-Under-Lyme Golf Club, Whitmore Road, Newcastle-Under-Lyme, Staffordshire

SCC/26/0008/CONConsultation with Staffordshire County CouncilRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 1 June 2026

Council decision: NO OBJECTIONSDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Newcastle-Under-Lyme Borough Council consultation in connection with an application to them for planning permission for the outline planning application, with all matters reserved except for vehicular access to the site from the A53 Whitmore Road, for the construction of up to 620 dwellings (including 30% affordable housing provision on site), a country park, public open space including equipped areas of play and allotments, green infrastructure, tree planting, SUDS infrastructure, the formation of the first phase of the Keele Link Road between the A53 and A525, associated infrastructure/works, and the demolition of the existing brick structure at Land North West of Whitmore Road and South of Newcastle-Under-Lyme Golf Club, Whitmore Road, Newcastle-Under-Lyme (ref 25/00973/OUT).

Received
16 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Westlands and Thistleberry ED, Keele, Knutton and Silverdale ED
  1. Received16 Jan
  2. Validated16 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target6 Feb
  5. Decided1 Jun

Decided in 136 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Land North West of Whitmore Road and South of Newcastle-Under-Lyme Golf Club, Whitmore Road, Newcastle-Under-Lyme, Staffordshire. Staffordshire has handled 222 applications of this type. This one was decided in 136 days, 12 weeks longer than Staffordshire's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 1 application across Westlands and Thistleberry ED, Keele, Knutton and Silverdale ED.

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

Application type
Consultation with Staffordshire County Council
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
620
Parish
Keele, Newcastle Unparished
District
Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 January 2026
Target decision date
6 February 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

UPRN
MAN000000000015528
Documents
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Tree Preservation Order: T6-4\TPO0004Part of the site · +15 more
  • Green belt: Newcastle-under-Lyme
  • Registered park and garden: Keele HallPart of the site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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

Also checked, none recorded (18)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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

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© 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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