New housing in South Staffordshire Council
We read South Staffordshire Council's planning register every day. We hold 12,972 of its planning applications going back to 2014, and 101 of those made in the last 12 months are for new homes.
It delivered 171% of the homes it needed in the 2025 Housing Delivery Test.
Key facts
- Local Plan
- Not recorded yet.
- Five-year housing land supply
- Not recorded yet.
- Housing Delivery Test
- 171% (2025)
- Local Plan sites we hold
- None loaded yet.
- Planning applications we hold
- 12,972
Applications for new homes, by year
Applications we have identified as being for new homes, by the year they were made. Approved and refused count those decided so far.
| Year | Applications | Approved | Refused |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 75 | 15 | 23 |
| 2025 | 110 | 62 | 33 |
| 2024 | 84 | 46 | 26 |
| 2023 | 116 | 66 | 40 |
| 2022 | 98 | 66 | 25 |
| 2021 | 94 | 66 | 21 |
The largest housing schemes of the last three years
| Homes | Site | Status | Made |
|---|---|---|---|
| 767 | Land At Keepers Lane Codsall Outline permission for a residential development (up to 767 dwellings), associated infrastructure, landscaping and vehicular access on land at Keepers Lane, Codsall, Staffordshire. 25/00695/EIASCR | Approved | 6 Aug 2025 |
| 750 | Land East Of Bilbrook Bilbrook South Staffordshire Outline planning application (with all matters reserved except primary means of vehicular access from Pendeford Mill Lane, Lane Green Road and Barnhurst Lane) for the demolition of existing buildings, construction of up… 24/00793/OUTM | Decided | 12 Sept 2024 |
| 750 | Land East And West Side Of A449 Penkridge Outline planning application (with all matters reserved except for primary means of vehicular access from the A449) for the demolition of farm buildings and associated structures and delivery of up to 750 dwellings… 23/01079/OUTMEI | Decided | 23 Dec 2023 |
| 550 | Land At Heath House Lane Codsall Outline planning for up to 550 residential dwellings, land for an 80 unit extra care facility, land for a community shop, land for an electric vehicle car club, associated access, infrastructure, open space, landscaping… 25/00874/OUTM | Refused | 27 Oct 2025 |
| 350 | Land Between Keepers Lane And Wergs Hall Road Codsall Request for screening opinion under Regulation 6 of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017. Full Permission for 350 residential units with associated infrastructure. Land… 25/00919/EIASCR | Approved | 10 Nov 2025 |
| 345 | Land East Of Wergs Hall Road Codsall WOLVERHAMPTON WV8 2HJ Full planning application for residential development comprising 345 dwellings with car parking, new estate roads, amenity space and associated infrastructure. 26/00379/FULM | Decided | 28 Apr 2026 |
| 150 | Land At Grange Farm School Lane Coven Outline planning application (with all matters reserved except primary means of vehicular access from Brewood Road) for the construction of up to 150 dwellings, health hub, first school expansion land, associated… 25/00686/OUTM | Approved | 28 Aug 2025 |
| 135 | Land To The East Of Lane Green Road Bilbrook Outline planning application (with all matters reserved except primary means of vehicular access from Lane Green Road) for the construction of up to 135 dwellings, associated access, drainage, green and blue… 24/00205/OUTM | Decided | 29 Feb 2024 |
| 135 | Land East Of A449 North Of Penkridge Outline planning application (with all matters reserved except for primary means of vehicular access from the A449) for the delivery of up to 135 dwellings, associated access, drainage, green and blue infrastructure… 23/01052/OUTMEI | Approved | 19 Dec 2023 |
| 121 | Land To The North Of Pool House Road Wombourne Full planning application for the construction of 121 dwellings, vehicular accesses from Pool House Road, blue and green infrastructure, ground remodelling and ancillary infrastructure. 24/00477/FULM | Approved | 7 Jun 2024 |
Fields people have checked here
5 fields in South Staffordshire Council have been checked on Check That Field. These are the fields people chose to look at, not a sample of all the land here.
| Likelihood of being built on | Fields |
|---|---|
| Low | 5 |
| Moderate | 0 |
| High | 0 |
| Very High | 0 |
Towns and villages
See every field round the edge of a town or village, scored for how likely it is to be built on.
- Acton Gate
- Acton Trussell
- Bishops Wood
- Brewood
- Calf Heath
- Codsall
- Coven
- Essington
- Featherstone (South Staffordshire)
- Four Ashes
- Four Crosses (South Staffordshire)
- Gospel Ash
- Gospel End
- Great Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay
- Himley
- Huntington (South Staffordshire)
- Hyde Lea and Coppenhall
- Kingswood (South Staffordshire)
- Kinver
- New Wood
- Old Perton
- Pattingham
- Penkridge
- Perton
- Rodbaston
- Seisdon
- Shareshill
- Springhill
- Stourton
- Swindon (South Staffordshire)
- Trysull
- Wheaton Aston
- Wombourne
Where this comes from
- Planning applications: South Staffordshire Council's online planning register, last read 14 Nov 2026.
- Housing Delivery Test: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.
- How fields are scored: how the score works.