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The Post Office 284 Manchester Road Lostock Gralam Northwich CW9 7PY

24/01903/LDCAmendmentApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 21 May 2025

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Lawful development certificate to establish the existing use of the building as a single dwelling in excess of four years

Received
1 July 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Shakerley
  1. Received1 Jul
  2. Validated17 Jan
  3. Consult.11 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided21 May

Decided in 124 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The Post Office 284 Manchester Road Lostock Gralam Northwich CW9 7PY. Chester has handled 932 applications of this type. This one was decided in 324 days, 38 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 37 applications across Shakerley. We hold 1,496 applications in total for the CW9 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
CW9 7PY
Application type
Amendment
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lostock Gralam

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 January 2025
Consultation expiry
11 February 2025
Neighbour consultation end
11 February 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13138427
Documents
11

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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

Source: Chester

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