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Continue reading →: THE GREY BELT MYTH BUSTED: How National Planning Law Precedents Legally Mandate Refusal at Coulter LaneBy The Burntwood Action Group (BAG) Strategic Policy Team Speculative developers and the Lichfield District Council (LDC) planning directorate have spent months attempting to rebrand the historic 56.6-acre site at Coulter Lane and Church Road as harmless “Grey Belt”. They are pushing a dangerous narrative that this classification somehow neutralises…
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Continue reading →: BIG NEWS: Prince’s Park Achieves National Green Flag Status!The Burntwood Action Group is incredibly proud to announce that Prince’s Park has officially been awarded the prestigious Green Flag status! As reported by Lichfield District Council, our beloved park is now recognised among the country’s very best green spaces. This is a massive victory for the Burntwood community and…
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Continue reading →: LAUNCHING THE FRANCIS BARBER HERITAGE & NATURE RESERVE — THE £1.5M ALTERNATIVE TO URBAN SPRAWLSpeculative developers rely on a singular myth to pave over our Green Belt: they claim that if their housing applications are refused, the land remains a financially “stranded” and useless agricultural asset. Today, the Burntwood Action Group (BAG) Strategic Policy Team is obliterating that narrative. We are proud to publicly…
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Continue reading →: URGENT ALERT: LDC PLANNERS RECOMMEND APPROVAL FOR COULTER LANE. THE BETRAYAL OF BURNTWOOD IS COMPLETE. NOW WE FIGHT BACK. 🚨As reported by LichfieldLive, the outsourced planners at Lichfield District Council have officially recommended APPROVAL for Bloor Homes to build 250 houses on our historic Green Belt at Coulter Lane. They are attempting to force this through because the Council has collapsed its own Local Plan, leaving us with only…
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Continue reading →: 🚨 URGENT MOBILISATION: The Coulter Lane Endgame is Here. Pack the Council on July 20th!The determination date for Outline Application 25/01485/OUTM (Coulter Lane) has been officially set. The Planning Committee will decide the fate of our Green Belt on Monday, 20 July 2026, at 6:00 pm at the Lichfield District Council Offices, Frog Lane, Lichfield. The Burntwood Action Group (BAG) Strategic Policy Team is…
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Continue reading →: How to Object to the Woodhouses Road DevelopmentDeadline: All comments must be received by August 4, 2026. References to Quote: You must include the appeal reference numbers APP/K3415/C/26/3378542 and APP/K3415/C/26/3378636. Valid Grounds for Objection (Feel free to copy, paste, but please personalise these points): How to Submit Your Objection: Note: any comments submitted to the inspectorate will…
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Continue reading →: TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN: The £5.56m Cinema Bailout and the Coulter Lane Scandal – Has LDC Lost Control?Yesterday, we issued a legal ultimatum to the Lichfield District Council (LDC) Planning Committee over the blatant corporate conflicts of interest regarding Bloor Homes and Coulter Lane. Now the wider district is thinking about a £5.56 million cost surge at the council’s flagship cinema development in Lichfield. To the casual…
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Continue reading →: EXPOSED: The Admission — Why We Just Issued another Legal Ultimatum to the Planning CommitteeThe Burntwood Action Group (BAG) has warned that the outsourcing of our Green Belt planning decisions to a private company, LWM Traded Services Ltd (LWMTS), creates a severe commercial conflict of interest. Today, Lichfield District Council’s own Monitoring Officer just proved us right. In a textbook bureaucratic blunder, the council’s…
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Continue reading →: 🚨 ARMING THE COUNCIL: BAG Issues Urgent Legal Directive to the Planning Committee to Defeat the Appeal ThreatFor months, developers have relied on a well-known intimidation tactic to force through unsustainable developments on our Green Belt: the “Shadow of the Inspectorate.” They threaten local councils with costly appeals and financial penalties if speculative applications are refused. Today, the Burntwood Action Group (BAG) Strategic Policy Team has completely…
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Continue reading →: The “Affordable” Illusion: Exposing the Corporate Loophole LDC Just Negotiated for Coulter LaneWhen Lichfield District Council (LDC) policy officers quietly published their recent housing report, they thought they were securing a neat political compromise with Bloor Homes. They agreed to a revised 43% “affordable housing” package, cutting the developer’s preferred “Discount Market Sale” (DMS) properties down from 15% to 8%. On paper,…
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