Hoole Bank Tar Lagoon Land South of The Street Hoole Village Chester

23/04030/LDCTreesApproved

Approved on 15 March 2024

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Proposed ground investigation enabling works to include shallow hand dug pits, trial pits, boreholes to the north of the site and around the lagoon area. Temporary enabling groundworks to include placement track mats, clearance of undergrowth and tree felling where required

Received: 27 December 2023
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Cheshire West and Chester Council
Ward: Gowy Rural

ReceivedReceived27 Dec
ValidatedValidated27 Dec
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided15 Mar

Decided in 79 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Hoole Bank Tar Lagoon Land South of The Street Hoole Village Chester. Chester has handled 742 applications of this type. This one was decided in 79 days, 3 weeks longer 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 42 applications across Gowy Rural.

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

Application type: Trees
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Mickle Trafford And District

Planning application dates

Date validated: 27 December 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address: St Mellons Business Park, Fortran Road Cardiff CF3 0EY

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-12667686
Documents: 5

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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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© 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.

Source: Chester

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