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Unit 1A Chester Gates Chester Cheshire CH1 6LT

23/03781/P14Approved

Approved on 8 January 2024

Council decision: Prior Approval not requiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Installation of new Solar PV (Photovoltaics) system on the roof of Flip Out, the roof top system will occupy a total area of around 1200m2 on the south facing elevations and will consist of 672x Risen 410W Solar PV Modules (RSM40-8-410M), the total installed rooftop capacity is 276 kWp, with all other PV Generator equipment (i.e. inverters) being installed at ground level

Received
30 November 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Saughall And Mollington
  1. Received30 Nov
  2. Validated30 Nov
  3. Consult.5 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided8 Jan

Decided in 39 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a solar installation at Unit 1A Chester Gates Chester Cheshire CH1 6LT. Chester has handled 11,944 applications of this type. This one was decided in 39 days, 2 weeks quicker than Chester's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 19 applications across Saughall And Mollington. We hold 433 applications in total for the CH1 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
CH1 6LT
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lea By Backford

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 November 2023
Consultation expiry
5 January 2024
Neighbour consultation end
5 January 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Unit 4 The Bridge Business Centre Wrexham Industrial Estate Wrexham LL13 9UG

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12643457
Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Cheshire West and ChesterPart of the site
  • 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

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© 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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