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Pear Tree Cottage Barnhouse Lane Barrow Chester CH3 7JY

23/00461/LDCTreesRefused

Refused on 11 July 2023

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Continued use of land as garden land ancillary to the main dwelling known as Pear Tree Cottage

Received
14 February 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Gowy Rural
  1. Received14 Feb
  2. Validated3 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided11 Jul

Decided in 130 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Pear Tree Cottage Barnhouse Lane Barrow Chester CH3 7JY. Chester has handled 742 applications of this type. This one was decided in 147 days, 13 weeks longer than Chester's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 42 applications across Gowy Rural. We hold 2,139 applications in total for the CH3 postcode area.

95% of trees 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 7JY
Application type
Trees
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Barrow

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 March 2023
Consultation expiry
31 March 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Orchard Cottage Town Farm Lane Norley Northwich WA6 8NH

Publicity

Site notice end
31 March 2023

Appeal

Appeal reference
23/00079/REF
Appeal status
Decided
Appeal result
Appeal dismissed

Appeal history

3328829
Dismissed
Type: Lawful Development CertificateProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 8 April 2024Dev Type: Householder developmentsReason: Refusal

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11937373
Documents
36

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

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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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