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Land Adjacent To Birch Hall Birches Lane Lach Dennis Northwich Cheshire

12/02679/FULFull ApplicationRefused
Full

Refused on 30 October 2012

Council decision: RefusalPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed crematorium, associated car park, access road and gardens of remembrance

Received
14 June 2012
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Shakerley
  1. Received14 Jun
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.17 Jul
  4. Target
  5. Decided30 Oct

Decided in 138 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Land Adjacent To Birch Hall Birches Lane Lach Dennis Northwich Cheshire. Chester has handled 2,658 applications of this type. This one was decided in 138 days, 12 weeks longer than Chester's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 37 applications across Shakerley.

94% of full 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

Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lostock Gralam

Planning application dates

Validated
14 June 2012
Consultation expiry
17 July 2012
Consultation end
17 July 2012
Neighbour consultation end
17 July 2012
Committee meeting
25 October 2012

Applicant and agent

Agent address
26 Chapel Street Chichester West Sussex PO19 1DL

Appeal

Appeal status
Appeal decided
Appeal result
Allowed

Additional information

Documents
49

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2016
    2 Mar

    Discharge of conditions 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 20, 22 and 23 of planning application 12/02679/FUL

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions16/00950/DIS
  2. 2012
    14 Jun

    Proposed crematorium, associated car park, access road and gardens of remembrance

    This applicationRefusedFull12/02679/FUL

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