Social Value Ideas for Lichfield District Council

Application approved after vote

The committee first voted on the refusal motion, which failed 7 votes to 4 with one abstention, and then voted to approve the officer recommendation. The outline application for the Whittington site w…

“The motion was that this planning application is approved. So this is to move forward with refusal on this application. All those who wish to refuse t…”

Approve with conditions

The committee approved both retrospective applications, each with the same additional conditions: a bird box for biodiversity and an inward-opening gate. This indicates a completed planning decision r…

““so the proposal is to abide by the office recommendation which is to approve but with that with the um incorporating a bird box and also that the gat…”

Statement of community involvement

The council adopted an updated Statement of Community Involvement 2025 after formal consultation. It sets out how communities, businesses and other stakeholders will be involved in planning policy and…

“Item 11, statement of community involvement. Can I call on councelor Farrell to speak on this item? You can. Thank you, chair. Uh this statement of co…”

District-wide design code adopted

Cabinet recommended adoption of a district-wide design code SPD, developed through workshops, surveys and consultation, to guide all developments in the district. The code is intended to have real pla…

“This this is for a district wide design code, which will apply to all developments coming through our planning committee. They will use this supplemen…”

Black Brook Hall deferred

The committee deferred the Black Brook Hall wedding-venue application because members wanted further information on parking layout and car parking numbers, guest capacity at daytime and evening events…

“members we have um a proposal for deferment by councelor sulter and that has been seconded forly by councilor cross um we need to have the the reasons…”

Adopt national planning delegation rules

The committee was asked to amend the council constitution to comply with the new national scheme of delegation for planning functions, effective 2026-10-31. This includes local arrangements for triage…

“So basically we are now in a situation where all councils across the country must amend their local arrangements to comply from Halloween the 31st of …”

Withdraw Local Plan 2040

The council agreed to withdraw the Local Plan 2040 from examination and set about preparing a new local plan. Members linked this to future procurement of planning consultants, evidence base work, con…

“I'm recommending that the local plan 2040 be withdrawn from its examination so that the this District Council uh can begin the process of preparing a …”

Solar farm land quality dispute

The application faced continued challenge over whether the site contains best and most versatile agricultural land and whether the land classification survey was robust. Objectors argued the survey wa…

“the key issues for consideration are the impact upon the historic environment the impact upon the character of the landscape the cumulative impact of …”

Internal audit charter approved

The committee approved the new internal audit charter required after the move to outsourced internal audit delivery by BDO. The charter formalises the mandate, responsibilities and reporting arrangeme…

“So as there has been a material change in the nature of the internal audit service BDO have come in as an outsource provider where you had an in-house…”

Councillor allowances rejected

Council chose not to accept the independent remuneration panel’s recommendations to increase member allowances at this time, mainly because of cost-of-living concerns and the timing of a pay rise duri…

“the report the report chairman conducted by the external independent body makes it clear that we as councillors in the electoral district do receive a…”

Food waste rollout delayed by vehicle supply

Food waste collections were delayed because Terberg could not deliver the specified vehicles in time. Officers explored borrowing vehicles from a neighbouring council but decided it was better to paus…

“In terms of the food waste delay, you'll you'll know that the unfortunately the food waste collections should have rolled out by now have been delayed…”