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Smithy Farm Chapel Lane Saighton Chester Cheshire CH3 6EW

06/00696/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 16 June 2006

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Change of use of redundant farm buildings to office use

Received
21 April 2006
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received21 Apr
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.19 May
  4. Target
  5. Decided16 Jun

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Smithy Farm Chapel Lane Saighton Chester Cheshire CH3 6EW. Chester has handled 932 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,139 applications in total for the CH3 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
CH3 6EW
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Saighton

Planning application dates

Validated
21 April 2006
Consultation expiry
19 May 2006
Neighbour consultation end
19 May 2006

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mistral Crewe Lane Farndon Chester Cheshire CH3 6PG

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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

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 (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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© 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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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