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Former Meaford Power Station Meaford Road Meaford Stone Staffordshire

Awaiting decision Stafford 25/40736/FUL Full Application

Works: Demolition

Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.

Proposal

Variation of condition 3 (approved plans) on 21/35159/OUT: Outline planning application for the creation of development platforms and phased development comprising up to 96,932sqm of employment floorspace (Use Classes E(g)(iii)/B2/B8) including up to 2 hectares of battery storage (Use Class Sui Generis), ancillary office space, new internal site roads and the use of existing accesses (including western access onto Meaford Road for emergency access), parking, ecology and biodiversity enhancements, landscaping, drainage, ancillary works and associated infrastructure, involving demolition, site clearance and remediation (All Matters Reserved except access, in part).

As published by the council, reference 25/40736/FUL

Application record

Reference
25/40736/FUL
Type
Full Application
Status
Awaiting decision
Received
3 Jun 2025
Validated
8 Jul 2025
Ward
Swynnerton And Oulton
Parish
Stone Rural

Timeline

Dates from the published record

  1. 3 Jun 2025

    Received by Stafford

  2. 8 Jul 2025

    Validated

    Checked as complete and ready for consideration.

  3. 23 Jul 2026

    Added to PlanIndex

  4. Decision

    Awaiting decision

    Decision expected by 2 September 2025, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.

    Stafford took a median of 133 days over the applications it decided in the last year.

Documents

Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report

Documents on file for this application

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What happens while it is decided

This application is with Stafford for determination, against a statutory target of eight weeks. Over the last year Stafford decided full applications in a median of 189 days. More in our guide to how long planning decisions take.

About full applications

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