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Bents Garden Centre, Bents Garden Centre Warrington Road, Warrington, WA3 5NT

2018/32822Full Planning (Major)Approved
Full

Approved on 16 August 2018

Council decision: Approved with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Full Planning (Major)- Proposed extension and remodelling of garden centre (including the insertion of a mezzanine floor for kitchen storage and staff facilities; covering over of the existing cafe terrace to form a tea room seating area and to accommodate horticultural and cookery education activities) the laying out of a kitchen and medicinal garden; and the removal of timber decking; hard surfaces and former bird of prey structures including 8 new car parking spaces

Received
11 May 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Culcheth, Glazebury and Croft
  1. Received11 May
  2. Validated24 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided16 Aug

Decided in 84 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for an extension at Bents Garden Centre, Bents Garden Centre Warrington Road, Warrington, WA3 5NT. Warrington has handled 7,181 applications of this type. This one was decided in 97 days, 6 weeks longer than Warrington's typical decision time. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 129 applications across Culcheth, Glazebury and Croft. We hold 2,776 applications in total for the WA3 postcode area.

82% of full applications at Warrington Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
WA3 5NT
Application type
Full Planning (Major)
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Culcheth and Glazebury

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 May 2018
Application expires
23 August 2018

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Grosvenor House, 1, St Marys Street, Worcester, WR1 1HA

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Additional information

Documents
24

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 2: Medium 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 (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

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© 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2021
    12 Mar

    Discharge of Condition - Proposed discharge of condition 3 (Materials) Condition 6 (Flood Measures) attached…

    RefusedDischarge of conditions2021/38943
  2. 2018
    11 May

    Full Planning (Major)- Proposed extension and remodelling of garden centre (including the insertion of a…

    This applicationApprovedFull2018/32822

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