BLOOR HOMES, CHURCH ROAD, BURNTWOOD

Following extensive consultation, family-owned, five-star housebuilder, Bloor Homes, has submitted outline proposals for a residential neighbourhood at a sustainable infill location at Church Road, Burntwood.

The submitted plans have incorporated a number of significant changes following pre-application public consultation and ongoing technical work, and would provide:

• Up to 250 high-quality family and affordable homes, with a mix of house types and sizes proposed, including the potential to provide bungalows.
• Affordable housing potentially local policy (28%) plus additional 15% in line with grey belt policy – ie.  up to 43% affordable housing.
• Development significantly scaled back from that proposed during consultation, with key changes including: 
  • Parcel at Coulter Lane removed from the proposals. No development east of Coulter Lane. 
  • Number of homes reduced by at least 50, from the up to 300 proposed during consultation to up to 250 in the outline planning application.
  • Development removed from the land east of Upfields.
  • Community hub proposed for the Church Road frontage removed in response to community feedback. 
  • Additional landscape planting to protect the setting of listed cottage on Church Road. 
• More than two-thirds of the site retained as open space, including: 
  
  • Extensive new landscaped public open spaces
  • Green corridors
  • Biodiversity areas
  • A network of public walking and cycling routes
  • Play areas
  • Allotments
  • Sustainable drainage system providing wetland habitats
• The retention of existing mature trees and majority of hedgerows, with additional planting, to significantly increase tree cover across the site. 
• Significant financial contributions to invest in local infrastructure such as healthcare, education etc. 

Update – December 2025
Outline planning application submitted

Our outline planning application has now been submitted to Lichfield District Council. The outline planning application sets out the principles for the delivery of up to 250 energy-efficient market and affordable homes, extensive landscaped public open space including play areas, areas for biodiversity enhancement and a network of walking and cycling routes on land previously inaccessible to the public. The submitted plans have been scaled back following public consultation and ongoing technical studies, with the parcel east of Coulter Lane now removed, and the number of homes reduced by at least 50. The community hub previously proposed on the Church Road frontage has also been removed in response to community feedback.

We have refreshed this website’s homepage to reflect the planning submission.

The outline planning application is the first formal step in the planning process, setting out broad overarching principles of development and will involve statutory consultation carried out by Lichfield District Council with a wide range of organisations. If approved, a further planning application will then be required to establish the finer details of the proposed neighbourhood, including architecture, layout and landscaping.

The planning application documentation can be viewed via this link, where Lichfield District Council’s statutory consultation on the submitted plans can also be accessed (please quote reference 25/01485/OUTM).