Ash Farm Station Road Dunham Massey WA14 5SG
Approved on 2 February 2016
Council decision: Prior Approval ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Application for Prior Approval under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class R of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 for a proposed change of use of agricultural building to a flexible use within shops, financial and professional services, restaurants and cafes, business, storage or distribution, hotels, or assembly or leisure (to allow expansion of existing Ice Cream farm business to provide additional farm shop space, cafe/restaurant areas).
- Received
- 18 November 2015
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 2
- Ward
- Bowdon
- Agent
- Randle White Ltd
- ReceivedReceived18 Nov
- ValidatedValidated8 Dec
- Consult.Consultation12 Jan
- TargetTarget Date2 Feb
- DecidedDecided2 Feb
Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a change of use at Ash Farm Station Road Dunham Massey WA14 5SG. Trafford has handled 494 applications of this type. This one was decided in 76 days, 3 weeks longer than Trafford's typical decision time. The site is in the Dunham Woodhouses conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 132 applications across Bowdon. We hold 816 applications in total for the WA14 postcode area.
81% of outline applications at Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- WA14 5SG
- Application type
- Prior Approval Class R
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 8 December 2015
- Consultation expiry
- 28 January 2016
- Consultation start
- 22 December 2015
- Consultation end
- 12 January 2016
- Neighbour consultation start
- 5 January 2016
- Neighbour consultation end
- 26 January 2016
- Last date for comments
- 28 January 2016
- Target decision date
- 2 February 2016
- Decision issued
- 3 February 2016
- Permission expires
- 3 February 2021
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Randle White Ltd
- Architect profile
- RANDLE WHITE LIMITED
- Agent address
- 11 Bradshaw Lane Grappenhall Cheshire WA4 2NJ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 7 January 2016
- Site notice end
- 28 January 2016
Additional information
- Documents
- 13
- Constraints
- 9
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Dunham Woodhouses
- Green belt: Trafford
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: Trafford
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