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Croxden Quarry, Freehay, near Cheadle, Staffordshire

SM.11/07/110 MConditionsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 19 August 2014

Council decision: GRANT - WITH CONDITIONS

Proposal

Application to vary Condition 4 of the extant planning consent, SM.91/1355, to allow for a 10 year extension of time at Croxden Quarry. This will enable the remaining 7.1 million tonnes (m/t) of permitted sand and gravel reserves from approximately 34 hectares (ha) of land to be fully worked, securing the viability of the quarry up to 2023

Submitted
16 September 2011
  1. Received16 Sep
  2. Validated16 Sep
  3. Consult.28 Oct
  4. Target7 Jan
  5. Decided19 Aug

Decided in 1068 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Croxden Quarry, Freehay, near Cheadle, Staffordshire. Staffordshire has handled 161 applications of this type. There are no previous applications recorded at this address.

97% of conditions 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
Conditions
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Cheadle
District
Staffordshire Moorlands District

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 September 2011
Consultation expiry
28 October 2011
Consultation end
28 October 2011
Target decision date
7 January 2012

Planning decision

Statutory period
113 days

Additional information

UPRN
MAN011112
Documents
84

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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: conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage 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 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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