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Ashbrook Plant Hire Woodside Farm Northwich Road Dutton Northwich Cheshire WA4 4LJ

25/02711/FULAmendmentAwaiting decision
Discharge / amendments
Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of land for B8 open air storage and distribution of agricultural machinery and plant hire, hard surfacing, installation of perimeter fencing and creation of landscaping bunds - Retrospective.

Received
29 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Marbury
  1. Received29 Aug
  2. Validated27 Nov
  3. Consult.24 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided

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Comments close on 24 December.

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Ashbrook Plant Hire Woodside Farm Northwich Road Dutton Northwich Cheshire WA4 4LJ. Chester has handled 932 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 29 August 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 47 applications across Marbury. We hold 6,056 applications in total for the WA4 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
WA4 4LJ
Application type
Amendment
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Dutton

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 November 2025
Consultation expiry
4 January 2026
Neighbour consultation end
24 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Sapling Home Farm Ullard Hall Lane Lower Peover WA16 9PJ United Kingdom

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
4 January 2026
Site notice end
24 December 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14254916
Documents
18

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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