The Old Vicarage Worthenbury Road Church Shocklach Malpas SY14 7BN Data via plota.co.uk

26/02626/BGP - Biodiversity Gain Plan Awaiting decision

Proposal

Discharge of Note 4 (BGP) of planning permission Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

23 Jul 2026

Decision

Expected by 17 Sept 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. A decision is expected by 17 Sept 2026.

Documents 3

Statements & assessments 1

PDF BIODIVERSITY NET GAIN Document · 23 Jul 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form Application Form · 23 Jul 2026 View ↗

Associated applications 3

Part of

Full10 Oct 2025council archive

Conditions 4 awaiting decision
- ConditionsDischarge of Note 4 (BGP)This application23 Jul 202626/02626/BGP
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  - ConditionsDischarge of condition 4 (Biodiversity Net Gain)23 Jul 202626/02318/DIS

Site constraints 2

Agricultural land, grade 3a

Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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