Planning application
Curborough Hall Farm Watery Lane Curborough Lichfield Staffordshire WS13 8ES
Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.
Proposal
Erection of a building for a nursery (Use Class E(f)), erection of 6 no. units and conversion of part of existing agricultural building for craft workshops, studio space, gym, light industrial use and light commercial uses (Use Class E(d), Class E(g)(ii), E(g)(iii), Class E(a) Class E(b), Class F(b)), a new commercial storage building (Use Class B8), new external sales area for the garden centre, cycle shelter, and all other related works, including associated landscaping and surfacing, the removal of existing steel frame and storage containers
As published by the council, reference 25/01471/FULM
Application record
- Reference
- 25/01471/FULM
- Type
- Full Application (Major)
- Status
- Decided
- Decision
- Granted As published: Approve
- Received
- 26 Nov 2025
- Validated
- 16 Dec 2025
- Decided
- 13 May 2026
- Ward
- Longdon
- Parish
- Curborough And Elmhurst
- Decision by
- Delegated Decision
- Postcode
- WS13 8ES
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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26 Nov 2025
Received by Lichfield
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16 Dec 2025
Validated
Checked as complete and ready for consideration.
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13 May 2026
Decision issued: Approve
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22 Jul 2026
Added to PlanIndex
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
74 documents on file for this application
- Planning report
- Ful decision
- _ environmental health officer - ldc
- Site plan - wider context
- _flood risk officer (staffs)
- _ staffordshire highways
- _ environmental health officer - ldc
- Info for llfa
- Info for llfa
- _ flood risk officer - scc
- Prow comments
- Flood risk assessment and drainage strategy
- Environmental noise assessment
- Proposed site plan - prow
- Landscape masterplan
- Amended information overview
- Underground drainage survey sheet 1
- Underground drainage survey sheet 2
- Underground drainage survey sheet 3
- Underground drainage survey overall
- Underground drainage survey overall
- Policy response
- _ staffordshire highways
- _ arboricultural officer - ldc
- _national highways
- _staffordshire county council planning
- _ flood risk officer - scc
- Mr duncan fisher
- _ environmental health officer - ldc
- _ archaeology officer - scc
- _ ecology manager - ldc
- _great crested newt officer
- _staffordshire ramblers
- _national grid electricity
- _staffordshire highways
- P23-1115_de_04-00-dr-a-001 - site location plan.pdf
- _ joint waste officer-ldc
- _national gas transmission
- Applicationformredacted
- P23-1115_de_04-00-dr-a-100 - existing site plan and topo
- P23-1115_de_04-00-dr-a-101 - proposed site plan
- P23-1115_de_04-00-dr-a-200 - storage barn - 200 - existing building plans
- P23-1115_de_04-00-dr-a-201 - storage barn - 201 - existing building elevations
- P23-1115_de_04-00-dr-a-210 - units 07 - 08 - 210 - proposed building plans
- P23-1115_de_04-00-dr-a-300 - units 01 - 06 - 300 - proposed building plans
- P23-1115_de_04-00-dr-a-301 - units 01 - 06 - proposed building elevations
- P23-1115_de_04-00-dr-a-310 - unit 09 - 310 - proposed building plans
- P23-1115_de_04-00-dr-a-211 - units 07 - 08 - proposed building elevations
- P23-1115_de_04-00-dr-a-320 - unit 10 - 320 - proposed building plans
- P23-1115_de_04-00-dr-a-321 - unit 10 - proposed building elevations
- P23-1115_de_04-00-dr-a-330 - unit 11 - proposed building elevations
- P23-1115_de_04-00-dr-a-311 - unit 09 - proposed building elevations
- P23-1115_de_04-00-dr-a-400 - existing streetscenes
- P23-1115_de_04-00-dr-a-401 - proposed streetscenes
- P23-1115_de_04-00-dr-a-500 - proposed visual a
- P23-1115_de_04-00-dr-a-501 - proposed visual b
- P23-1115_en_0001_-_0002 landscape vignette and section
- Superseded
- R002v4 pl - sequential assessment final
- R001v2 ec - retail and leisure assessment
- P23-1115-tr-r01 transport statement 09.10.25
- 12129-d4s-xx-xx-c-rp-0001
- 241007 1920 pea v1 final - compressed
- 251111 1920 bng final v1 - compressed
- 251111 1920 bng v1
- R003 v2 pl planning statement oct 2025
- P23-1115_de - curborough craft centre das_part 2
- P23-1115_de - curborough craft centre das_part 3
- P23-1115_de - curborough craft centre das_part 1
- Siteblock plan - existing_included_in_the location plan
- P23-1115_de_04-00-dr-a-231 - storage barn - proposed building elevations.pdf
- P23-1115_de_04-00-dr-a-230 - storage barn - proposed building plans.pdf
- P23-1115_de_04-00-dr-a-221 - storage barn - existing building elevations.pdf
- P23-1115_de_04-00-dr-a-220 - storage barn - existing building plans.pdf
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