Stanlow Refinery Oil Sites Road Ellesmere Port Cheshire CH65 4BD
Approved on 5 February 2018
Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Construction of Bitumen Production Plant with associated process plant storage, offices, tank farms, fill point and vehicle hardstanding areas.
- Received
- 28 June 2017
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Elton
- ReceivedReceived28 Jun
- ValidatedValidated21 Jul
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided5 Feb
Decided in 199 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Stanlow Refinery Oil Sites Road Ellesmere Port Cheshire CH65 4BD. Chester has handled 2,658 applications of this type. This one was decided in 222 days, 24 weeks longer than Chester's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 3 other applications at this address. We hold 191 applications in total for the CH65 postcode area.
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
- Postcode
- CH65 4BD
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 21 July 2017
- Consultation expiry
- 15 August 2017
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Rodwell Tower 111 Piccadilly 4th Floor Halliday Meecham Manchester M1 2HY
Publicity
- Site notice end
- 15 August 2017
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-06154605
- Documents
- 28
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Flood zone 3: High 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.
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 201324 Dec
Storage of substance classified as dangerous for the environment
ApprovedHazardous Substance Application13/05540/HAZ - 201325 Nov
LPG storage spheres
ApprovedLawful Development Certificate13/05114/LDC - 20122 May
Introduction of natural gas pipeline into Refinery, overground and underground, together with associated…
ApprovedFull Application12/02133/FUL
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