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95 Whipcord Lane Chester CH1 4DG

25/00298/LDCAmendmentApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 18 June 2025

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Lawful development certificate to establish an existing use of a seven room HMO.

Received
4 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Chester City and The Garden Quarter
  1. Received4 Feb
  2. Validated20 Feb
  3. Consult.18 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided18 Jun

Decided in 118 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 95 Whipcord Lane Chester CH1 4DG. Chester has handled 932 applications of this type. This one was decided in 134 days, 11 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 64 applications across Chester City and The Garden Quarter. We hold 433 applications in total for the CH1 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
CH1 4DG
Application type
Amendment
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 February 2025
Consultation expiry
18 March 2025
Neighbour consultation end
18 March 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
23 Fir Tree Avenue Chester CH4 7QY United Kingdom

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13697242
Documents
17

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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© 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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