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Agricultural Building Middle Lane, Congleton, Cheshire East

23/3414CPrior Approval: Agricultural and Forestry DevelopmentRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 4 October 2023

Council decision: Determination - refusal (stage 2 )

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Steel Framed Agricultural Building

Submitted
8 September 2023
Ward
Congleton East
  1. Received8 Sep
  2. Validated8 Sep
  3. Consult.2 Oct
  4. Target5 Oct
  5. Decided4 Oct

Decided in 26 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Agricultural Building Middle Lane, Congleton, Cheshire East,. Cheshire East has handled 1,224 applications of this type. This one was decided in 26 days, 4 weeks quicker than Cheshire East's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 59 applications across Congleton East.

79% of outline applications at Cheshire East Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Prior Approval: Agricultural and Forestry Development
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Congleton

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 September 2023
Consultation expiry
2 October 2023
Consultation end
2 October 2023
Target decision date
5 October 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
27 days

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Cheshire East
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Source: Cheshire East

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