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Chester Zoo Caughall Road Upton Chester CH2 1LH

25/03987/NMAConditionsApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 8 January 2026

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Non-material amendment to 24/02159/S73 (Amendments to wording of conditions 23 and 28 )

Received
19 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Upton
  1. Received19 Dec
  2. Validated19 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided8 Jan

Decided in 20 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Chester Zoo Caughall Road Upton Chester CH2 1LH. Chester has handled 1,156 applications of this type. This one was decided in 20 days, 5 weeks quicker than Chester's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 30 applications across Upton. We hold 1,157 applications in total for the CH2 postcode area.

96% of conditions 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
CH2 1LH
Application type
Conditions
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Upton By Chester

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
10 Hunters Walk Canal Street Chester CH1 4EB United Kingdom

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14501246
Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
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.

© 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2025
    27 Mar

    Variation to Condition 20 to 24/02159/S73

    PendingNon-material amendment25/01019/NMA

Source: Chester

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