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Topwood Farm Dog Lane Oldcastle Malpas Cheshire SY14 7BD

06/00205/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 21 March 2006

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of farm building to document storage (partly retrospective)

Received
2 February 2006
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received2 Feb
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.1 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided21 Mar

Decided in 47 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Topwood Farm Dog Lane Oldcastle Malpas Cheshire SY14 7BD. Chester has handled 932 applications of this type. This one was decided in 47 days, 9 days quicker than Chester's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 523 applications in total for the SY14 postcode area.

86% of amendment applications at Cheshire West and Chester Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SY14 7BD
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Old Castle

Planning application dates

Validated
2 February 2006
Consultation expiry
1 March 2006
Neighbour consultation end
1 March 2006

Applicant and agent

Agent address
S Murray And Associates Cross Cottage Castle Street Holt Wrexham LL13 9YL

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site

Not published by this council, so not checked: conservation areas and Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, 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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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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: Chester

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