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Land At Watercress Farm, Off Thirlmere Drive, Lymm, Warrington, WA13 9PF

2023/00608/FULMFull Planning (Major)Refused
Full

Refused

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Erection of part two/part three storey building comprising 36 apartments (24no. 1 bed and 12no. 2 bed) for retirement living housing (Use Class C3) with associated communal facilities, substation, landscaping and car parking with access onto Thirlmere Drive.

Received
12 May 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Lymm North and Thelwall
  1. Received12 May
  2. Validated26 Jun
  3. Consult.6 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided

About this application

This is a full planning application at Land At Watercress Farm, Off Thirlmere Drive, Lymm, Warrington, WA13 9PF. Warrington has handled 7,181 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 12 May 2023 and is still awaiting a decision. There have been 8 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 118 applications across Lymm North and Thelwall. We hold 2,744 applications in total for the WA13 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
WA13 9PF
Application type
Full Planning (Major)
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
36
Parish
Lymm

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 June 2023
Consultation expiry
6 June 2024
Consultation end
6 June 2024
Application expires
25 September 2023

Planning decision

Decision
Refused
Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
14 August 2023

Appeal history

3354475
Allowed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 11 March 2025Dev Type: Major dwellingsReason: Refusal

Additional information

Documents
43

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: Warrington
  • 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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

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  3. 2025
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  4. 2025
    16 Jul

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  5. 2025
    9 Jul

    Discharge of Condition No. 8 (CEMP) attached to planning permission 2023/00608/FULM

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  6. 2023
    12 May

    Erection of part two/part three storey building comprising 36 apartments (24no. 1 bed and 12no. 2 bed) for…

    This applicationRefusedFull2023/00608/FULM

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