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Tramways Crewe Street Chester CH1 3DA

26/00371/P14Approved

Approved on 9 March 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval required and approvedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Installation of 352 new solar PV Panels to be fixed on the pitched roofs spread over 5 separate buildings

Received
4 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Chester City and The Garden Quarter
  1. Received4 Feb
  2. Validated4 Feb
  3. Consult.4 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided9 Mar

Decided in 33 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a solar installation at Tramways Crewe Street Chester CH1 3DA. Chester has handled 11,954 applications of this type. This one was decided in 33 days, 3 weeks quicker than Chester's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application 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.

Application details

Postcode
CH1 3DA
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 February 2026
Consultation expiry
5 March 2026
Neighbour consultation end
4 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Lion House 3 Plough Yard London EC2A 3LP

Publicity

Site notice end
5 March 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14672146
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.

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