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Grosvenor Villas Care Home Lightfoot Street Chester CH2 3AD

23/01562/FULAmendmentApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 17 May 2024

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

First floor extension and rebuilding walls of existing single storey residential care home to form two storey residential care home with ensuite bedrooms and new entrance, external works to form residents outdoor gardens, solar panels (part retrospective)

Received
15 May 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Newton and Hoole
  1. Received15 May
  2. Validated15 May
  3. Consult.12 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided17 May

Decided in 368 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Grosvenor Villas Care Home Lightfoot Street Chester CH2 3AD. Chester has handled 932 applications of this type. This one was decided in 368 days, 45 weeks longer than Chester's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 48 applications across Newton and Hoole. We hold 1,157 applications in total for the CH2 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
CH2 3AD
Application type
Amendment
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 May 2023
Consultation expiry
12 October 2023
Neighbour consultation end
12 October 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
The Studio Darlington Wharf Darlington Road Bath BA2 6NL United Kingdom

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
29 June 2023
Site notice end
15 June 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12135131
Documents
35

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.

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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