Urenco UK Ltd Capenhurst Lane Capenhurst Chester CH1 6ER

25/02408/NMAAmendmentApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 27 March 2026

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Non Material Amendment to 21/02323/FUL (Alterations and External Works (including Demolition) to the E22 Building, parking area and associated works) (changes along the E22 Building North Elevation - relocated barrier, relocated Vertical Air Receiver, HVAC louvre added, additional small louvre added, existing concrete wall extended, switchboard moved inside the building, new entrance steps and ramp, main pedestrian aluminium and glazed entrance doors arrangement updated, cladding repainted) (changes Along the E22 Building West Elevation - 2 Diesel Generators increased in size, concrete wall removed, existing concrete wall extended, cladding repainted and existing louvres to be repaired and not replaced by new cladding)

Received: 4 August 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Cheshire West and Chester Council
Ward: Saughall And Mollington

ReceivedReceived4 Aug
ValidatedValidated15 Aug
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided27 Mar

Decided in 224 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Urenco UK Ltd Capenhurst Lane Capenhurst Chester CH1 6ER. Chester has handled 932 applications of this type. This one was decided in 235 days, 26 weeks longer than Chester's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 7 other applications 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.

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 6ER
Application type: Amendment
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Capenhurst And Ledsham

Planning application dates

Date validated: 15 August 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-14227465
Documents: 9

Site constraints

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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.

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.

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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7 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Chester

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