Planning applications

Planning Tracker

The Planning Tracker page on this website shows current and recent applications to local planning authorities, their stage in the process and decisions reached. It's easy from there to click straight through to see the detailed documents.

Planning applications in Cannock Wood

Planning applications should be made to Cannock Chase District Council (CCDC) and, as the planning authority, they decide the outcome of every application. The Parish Council is a statutory consultee and can only comment on planning applications in the same way as any member of the public 

• to represent local views
• provide local knowledge
• raise areas of concern
• inform, debate, and add value to the process
• contact and involve District Councillors if required.

Members of the public attending the meeting can comment, speak in support, of or object to any application during the ‘Open Forum’ segment of the meeting.

The PC is only a consultee and counts as one opinion. Residents who wish to give their opinion on a planning application should send their own individually written letters or e- mails (use your own words as much as possible as this will carry more weight than a template letter) direct to the planning department at CCDC. The PC’s comments in response to a planning application can only be based on planning matters. Where possible the PC can quote polices in the Local Plan and made Neighbourhood Plan as these are the starting point for considering the merits of any application. The PC will ensure that its duty to conserve and enhance biodiversity is an integral part of its consultation responses to planning applications.

Material planning considerations include:

• The design layout and landscaping of buildings, including building density, appearance, materials and effects on street.
• The relationship between new and existing buildings, particularly in relation to privacy, daylight and sunlight (overshadowing).
• The presence of trees and other landscape features.
• Effect on wildlife and the countryside (openness of the Green Belt and preserving the qualities of the National Landscape (AONB)
• Access, traffic and transport issues including highway safety and adequacy of parking.
• Noise and smell.
• Risk of flooding or pollution.
• Effect on historic buildings.
• Contribution to the local economy.
• Cumulative impact
• Past planning history or appeal decisions of the site.
• Central government policy and guidance (National Planning Policy Framework, Planning Practice Guidance).

The following are NOT considered to be material considerations:

• Effect on property values.
• Loss of view from an individual property.
• Existence of restrictive covenants on the use of land or buildings.
• Ownership and access rights.
• Property maintenance issues.
• Competition between individual businesses.
• The fact that his application is for a different form of development than a recent approved scheme.
• Identity of or history of the applicant.
• Noise and disturbance from construction work.
• Damage to property.

When the PC response is ‘NO OBJECTION’ it is satisfied that all the above have been considered carefully and applied to the application under consideration has no area for objection.