A small Greggs bakery is planned beside the new EV charging hub and drive-thru coffee shop at Lichfield South, with about 10 jobs. Comments close on 2 December.
Greggs could open a bakery at Lichfield South, the business park on Birmingham Road on the southern edge of the city. A planning application for a 73 square metre building beside the park’s new electric car charging hub and drive-thru coffee shop was validated by Lichfield District Council on 5 November (application 26/01251/FUL).
The applicant is EG On The Move, the roadside services company that runs the charging hub. Its covering letter says the bakery would create about 10 jobs.
What is planned
The application describes “a bakery building (Use Class E) with associated works”. The covering letter and planning statement both name the operator as Greggs (covering letter).
The scheme includes:
- a single-storey bakery building of about 73 square metres
- a bin store
- footpaths linking it to the rest of the site
- new planting
It would stand on a strip that was meant to be landscaping under the earlier permission for the site. No parking spaces would be lost. The 43 spaces built for the drive-thru would serve both units, according to the transport note by Dynamic Transport Planning.
The application form gives these opening hours:
| Days | Opening hours |
|---|---|
| Monday to Saturday | 6am to 6pm |
| Sundays and bank holidays | 8am to 5pm |
The form puts the new jobs at 10 full-time equivalent posts. The planning statement calls them “10 new full time jobs”.
How it got here
The bakery is the latest addition to a development that has been taking shape at Lichfield South for two years. The council approved outline and full planning permission for the wider scheme on 26 November 2024 (23/01040/OUTFLM). That covered:
- an electric vehicle charging hub with a drive-thru coffee shop
- a new office building
- outline consent for employment buildings for high-tech and advanced manufacturing uses
A second approval on 16 June 2025 (25/00146/REMM) fixed the detail of 12,202 square metres of employment and commercial floorspace.
EG On The Move says the charging hub and the drive-thru coffee shop were completed in September 2026. Its letter describes the bakery as giving “a more comprehensive roadside facility” with fuel, charging and food in one place.
Traffic and the Green Belt
The site is in the Green Belt and is allocated in the Local Plan for offices. The applicant argues that a building this small, inside a development that already has permission, would do no more harm to the openness of the Green Belt than what is already approved. That is the main planning judgement the council will have to make.
On traffic, the transport note uses figures from comparable cafés. It estimates about 146 vehicle trips a day, counting arrivals and departures separately. It forecasts 10 two-way trips in the morning rush hour and nine in the evening one. Its busiest hour at the bakery is 10am to 11am, with 18 movements. The note found no recorded road accidents near the site access in 2022 to 2024.
One detail does not match across the documents. The covering letter and planning statement give the building as 73 square metres, while the transport note works its figures from “around 66m2”.
So far the only published consultee response is from the joint waste team. It reminds the applicant that commercial waste must be separated for recycling and that bin lorries need a road surface able to take 32 tonnes.
What it means for you
- To comment: use the council’s planning portal and quote 26/01251/FUL. The consultation period runs to Wednesday 2 December, and the site notice, posted on 10 November, expires on 1 December.
- The decision is due by Thursday 31 December, the determination deadline on the council’s record. The case officer is Richard Sunter.
- Nothing is approved yet. A plan naming Greggs is not a confirmed opening, and the application gives no opening date.
Sources
- Lichfield District Council planning application 26/01251/FUL: summary, dates and documents tab, read on 12 November 2026. Documents used: the application form, the covering letter and the planning statement from EG On The Move (14 October 2026), Dynamic Transport Planning’s technical note 3710026-TN (14 August 2026) and the joint waste officer’s response (7 November 2026).
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