Following Lichfield District Council’s vote to adopt the government’s National Scheme of Delegation for Planning Functions, the Burntwood Action Group has been in direct contact with Councillor Steve Norman, Chair of the council’s Overview and Scrutiny Committee. Between the council chamber debate and correspondence with Councillor Norman, we now have…

If you want to know how speculative developers get away with building massive estates on our precious Green Belt, you only had to look at Monday night’s Lichfield District Council (LDC) Planning Committee meeting (7 September 2026). With no actual housing applications on the agenda, our elected representatives met to…

There is a quiet, highly calculated bureaucratic coup taking place in the committee rooms of Lichfield District Council (LDC) tonight. Under the perfectly innocent-sounding guise of “aligning with new national legislation,” LDC’s planning officers are presenting a report to the Planning Committee. They want councillors to recommend a new local…

Politicians love to announce massive targets—like building 1.5 million homes across the UK—as if approving a site automatically produces a street of affordable houses. But an insightful video (watch below) analysis covering recent Home Builders Federation (HBF) data exposes the harsh reality: Britain’s housebuilding crisis isn’t caused by a lack…