Article 15 Notices Have Appeared: Why You Must HOLD YOUR FIRE (For Now)

If you’ve walked past Church Road or Coulter Lane today, you’ve seen them: the formal Article 15 planning notices. They are the official signal that Bloor Homes has begun its attempt to urbanise our Green Belt.

It is natural to feel a sense of “cold anger.”

But we need you to stay calm. And we need you to wait just a little longer.

Why we aren’t objecting yet

The Planning Portal is open, but we are asking every resident to hold back your comments for a few more days. In the world of planning, an objection that says “It will be too busy” or “I love the view” carries almost zero weight. Bloor Homes has high-paid consultants who are experts at “explaining away” those feelings.

To defeat them, we must fight with facts, data, and law.

The “Technical Wall”

The Burntwood Action Group has been working behind the scenes with planning, heritage, and traffic experts. We are finalising a series of Technical Appendices that prove that the application is flawed.

What we will provide

In the next week or so, we will release a “Resident Objection Guide.” This will provide you with the specific “Planning Hooks” you need to make your voice count. We will show you how to link your concerns directly to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and the Lichfield Local Plan.

100 objections based on Planning Law are more powerful than 1,000 objections based on emotion.

The Strategy: We want a flood of high-quality, technical objections to hit the Planning Officer’s desk all at once. This forces them to address every single legal point we raise.

Stay angry, but stay disciplined. We are building a case they cannot ignore.

Watch this space. The guide is coming.