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Welbatch Farm Hookagate Shrewsbury Shropshire SY5 8BA

22/03527/AGRAgricultural NotificationApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 24 August 2022

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Dig and construct a slurry lagoon at Welbatch Farm to store dairy cow slurry. Depth 4.5m with additional 0.75m freeboard including a 1.5m rise above ground level.Why necessary for agriculture: To provide enough slurry storage to meet the dairy herds requirements over the winter period and to meet current regulationsWhy designed for agriculture: Current slurry storage requires frequent emptying necessitating spreading during winter months. The new store will cope with winter storage.

Received
1 August 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
6
Ward
Longden
  1. Received1 Aug
  2. Validated1 Aug
  3. Consult.6 Sep
  4. Target29 Aug
  5. Decided24 Aug

Decided in 23 days (council typically 42)

About this application

This is a planning application at Welbatch Farm Hookagate Shrewsbury Shropshire SY5 8BA. Shropshire has handled 470 applications of this type. This one was decided in 23 days, 3 weeks quicker than Shropshire's typical decision time. There have been 10 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 11 applications across Longden. We hold 1,328 applications in total for the SY5 postcode area.

92% of all applications at Shropshire Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 6 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SY5 8BA
Application type
Agricultural Notification
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Longden

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 August 2022
Consultation expiry
6 September 2022
Consultation end
6 September 2022
Target decision date
29 August 2022
Permission expires
24 August 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11439767
Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

Planning history at this site

10 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    21 Sep

    Construction of a replacement dairy parlour and related ancillary works

    PendingApplication26/03538/FUL
  2. 2024
    4 Mar

    Erection of steel portal framed building

    ApprovedAgricultural Notification24/00887/AGR
  3. 2024
    16 Jan

    The conversion and extension of farm buildings to office space

    ApprovedListed building consent24/00170/LBC
  4. 2023
    12 Dec

    The conversion and extension of farm buildings to office space

    ApprovedFull Planning Application23/05347/FUL
  5. 2021
    10 Feb

    Discharge of Conditions 8 (Lighting) and 9 (Bat/Bird Boxes) associated with planning application number…

    Discharge Conditions ApprovedDischarge of conditions21/00636/DIS
  6. 2020
    21 Aug

    Works to facilitate the conversion of barn to form an office; to include insertion of glass elevations

    ApprovedListed building consent20/03375/LBC

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