YEW TREE COTTAGE Rowley Bank Lane, High Legh, Knutsford, Cheshire East, WA16 0QT Data via plota.co.uk

26/3663/HOUS - Householder Pending Consideration

Proposal

Alterations and Extensions to Existing Dwelling Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓

Received

9 Oct 2026

Decision

Expected by 4 Dec 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 3 Dec 2026 and 20 Dec 2026, from Cheshire East's recent extensions.

Comments are open until 12 Nov 2026

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Documents 10

Site constraints 3

Green belt: Merseyside and Greater Manchester

Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.

Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.

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Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not 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.

Also on the record

Nature recovery project: Lost Wetlands.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 17 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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LAND FORMERLY PART OF YEW TREE HALL FARM, Rowley Bank Lane, High Legh, Knutsford , Cheshire East, WA16 0QT

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Important details

Council: Cheshire East
Application type: Householder
Postcode: WA16 0QT
Received: 9 Oct 2026
Validated: 9 Oct 2026
Ward: High Legh
Parish: High Legh
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 4 Dec 2026
Decision level: Delegation
Applicant: Show
Agent: Jay Ashall Partnership

Decision outlook

Day 20 of the 56-day target. Cheshire East usually decides extensions by day 60.

prediction

Day 2040 days to the predicted decision (day 60)

47%decided within 8 weeks

91%approved

1,725decided in the last year

Plota live figures for extensions decided by Cheshire East in the last twelve months, from validation. Cheshire East decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Comments by: 12 Nov 2026
Statutory expiry: 4 Dec 2026

Historical activity at this location

1 nearby application on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2024 Approved

Fir Tree Cottage Rowley Bank Lane, High Legh, Knutsford, Cheshire East, WA16 0QT

Removal of existing single-storey side element and erection of two-storey side extension…

24/4547/HOUS 8 Nov 2024

Cheshire East

Planning Authority Score

1.9/10

Poor

#274 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Cheshire East is one of the slowest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #268 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 65% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (91%) than the national average (90%).

Among the slowest councils in England

for householder decisions

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Cheshire East decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

87%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #168 of 296

91%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #170 of 296

39%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #268 of 296

65%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #279 of 296

72%

Minor dwellings approved

358 decided (1-9 homes)

76%

Major dwellings approved

25 decided (10+ homes)

79%

Change of use approved

119 decided

2,513

Total decisions

321 refused in the year to March 2026