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Continue reading →: 🚨 The Yellow Signs Are Up! Meg Lane & Rake Hill Deadline 13th July 2026The rumours that our campaign is over are officially dead. Lichfield District Council has finally attached the formal yellow planning notices to the lampposts surrounding Meg Lane and Rake Hill. 📅 Mark Your Calendars: Monday, 13th July 2026 You now have until Monday, 13th July 2026 to log your formal…
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Continue reading →: The 30-Month Collapse: Exposing the Mismanagement and Political Defeatism Behind LDC’s Planning FailureFor months, the Burntwood Action Group (BAG) and local residents have been sounding the alarm over the sudden, aggressive surge of speculative housing applications threatening our green spaces. We were told by the political leadership at Lichfield District Council (LDC) that this was simply an unfortunate, unavoidable consequence of shifting…
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Continue reading →: 🛑 BURNTWOOD STANDS FIRM: Read Our Official Position Statement to Savills Planning Regarding Rugeley RoadAs many of you are now aware, Barratt Homes has launched a pre-application consultation for a proposed 130-dwelling development on Rugeley Road. The Burntwood Action Group (BAG) Strategy Team has conducted an immediate review of this launch, and our directive to the community is clear: We are boycotting their private…
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Continue reading →: Objection Toolkit: How to Block the 225-Home Rake Hill / Meg Lane DevelopmentThe community is fighting the unsustainable proposal by Hourigan Planning and Anwyl Land to build 225 homes on the green corridor between Rake Hill and Meg Lane. While the developers have claimed they’ve had “positive discussions” with Lichfield District Council, we have a major advantage. We have unearthed the official…
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Continue reading →: Baskets, Boots, and Willow Beds: The Hidden History of the Coulter Lane FieldsWhen we look across the beautiful, open fields off Coulter Lane and Church Road today, it’s easy to see them simply as a peaceful green backdrop to our daily lives. But if you could step back into the late 1700s and 1800s, this landscape would have looked, sounded, and felt…
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Continue reading →: The General’s Legacy: Why the “Scholarship Soil” of Fulfen is a National Treasure 🎖️🛡️Lichfield District Council’s current “expert advice” treats the Coulter Lane fields as anonymous arable land. We’ve gone to the archives to prove it’s anything but. This isn’t just about “green space”—it’s about a 700-year-old legacy that belongs to the people of Burntwood. The Hero: A General in the King’s Inner…
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Continue reading →: The General, the Scholar, and the “School Farm”: More Secret History of the Coulter Lane FieldsFor months, we’ve been told that the fields at Coulter Lane are just “vacant land” or “scrubland” destined for 250 executive houses. We were told there was nothing there. They were wrong. Thanks to a breakthrough discovery in the archives and the original deeds of the Old School House, Coulter…
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Continue reading →: The Whittington Warning: A Front-Row Seat to the Death of the Green BeltOn the evening of April 27th, members of the Burntwood Action Group (BAG) sat in the public gallery at Lichfield District Council. We weren’t there for our own sites; we were on a fact-finding mission. A development in Whittington was under fire, and we wanted to see how the current…
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Continue reading →: The Mystery of the “Green”: How Our Village Got Its NameWe all know the name Burntwood Green. We use it every day—on our mail, when we talk to neighbours, and as a point of pride. But names are like fossils; they carry the history of the ground beneath our feet. As we fight to save the fields at Coulter Lane,…
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Continue reading →: Signed, Sealed, and Settled: The 227-Year-Old Voice of Francis Barber in BurntwoodFor decades, the story of Francis Barber in Burntwood was a series of “maybes” and “likelys.” We knew he was here, we knew he was the UK’s first Black schoolmaster, and we knew he was the chosen heir to the great Dr. Samuel Johnson. But history often leaves behind blurred…
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