page_title: Little Aston
section_title: Little Aston Park
hierarchical_section_title: Little Aston / Residences / Little Aston Park
caption_attribution_description: English: View across a field at Little Aston, Staffordshire, England, to St Peter's parish church
context_page_description: Little Aston is an affluent area of the district of Lichfield, within the settlement of The Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield. At the last UK census there were 935 homes in the village, well over 10% of which were multimillion-pound properties, and is known for its footballers and successful businessmen.
context_section_description: Located in the south of the village is Little Aston Park. Often referred to as "Millionaire's Row"  - with Roman Road being the most expensive street in Staffordshire - it is a private estate with no public right of way over any of its private roads or grounds, consisting of around 100 unique, architect-designed houses and includes Birmingham's most expensive house ever sold at £7.5 million. It also contains one of the village's championship golf clubs, Little Aston Golf Club, and St.Peter's Church. The park is located in a woodland setting around the historic rhododendron-lined Roman Road which closely follows path of the ancient Roman Icknield Street.
  Its private roads and gated entrances are maintained by LAPRA Limited (Little Aston Park Residents Association), to which home-owners contribute. Alternatively some of the private roads have their own residents associations allowing them to maintain their own roadways, gates and CCTV systems. To ensure only high standards of development, Lichfield Council requires "for properties to be very large and detached, set down long driveways with significant screening and landscaping between neighbouring properties", and has designated the area the Little Aston Park Conservation Area. In addition, the non-developed borders to the park are protected by being designated as green belt land.
  An application for planning permission for perimeter gates around the private estate was recently Refused at a Lichfield Council Planning Committee meeting, and subsequent Planning Inspectorate Appeal Dismissed, as to create a large gated community would undermine social cohesion by creating social segregation, impact highway safety and slow access to emergency services - the issue deeply divided property owners with 79 residents objecting and 57 supporting. Some residents had argued that there had been a recent murder of one of the residents in his home and a drive by shooting. Other residents had pointed out that the newly appointed management company had not informed residents of the proposals - which all residents were expected to pay for at great cost - overstepping their authority, and problems with the estate were internal not external, such as excessive professional and management fees of £22,000 a year for the new management company (resulting in Lapra Ltd having to double residents' yearly contributions) - compared to previous years where a volunteer management committee of residents oversaw the estate's maintenance allowing all residents' funds to be spent on actual maintenance and security.
caption: St Peters Chuch
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