Godscroft Cottage Godscroft Lane Frodsham WA6 6XU Data via plota.co.uk

26/02227/FUL - Full Application Awaiting decision

Proposal

Erection of an agricultural storage building and hardstanding forming an access track and turning head. (Retrospective). Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 8 Oct 2026, 07:16

Application progress

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Received

16 Jul 2026

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Validated

5 Aug 2026

Decision

Expected by 30 Sept 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 9 Oct 2026; it is now day 65.

The consultation period closed on 9 Sept 2026.

Documents 3

Statements & assessments 2

PDF HERITAGE STATEMENT Document · 16 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF DESIGN AND ACCESS STATEMENT Document · 16 Jul 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM WITHOUT PERSONAL INFORMATION Application Form · 5 Aug 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 6

1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin

Nearest: Godscroft Hall Farmhouse, Grade II, about 2 m from the postcode pin

The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.

Historic England ↗

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.

Read the government guidance ↗

Flood zone 3, rivers and sea

High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.

The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.

Flood map ↗

Agricultural land, grade 2

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.

National infrastructure project about 972 m away: Frodsham Solar

The site is about 972 m from the project boundary. Generating station, awaiting the Secretary of State's decision.

Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.

Planning Inspectorate project page ↗

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2.

Not affected

No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) 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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Important details

Council: Chester
Application type: Full Application
Postcode: WA6 6XU
Received: 16 Jul 2026
Validated: 5 Aug 2026
Ward: Frodsham
Parish: Frodsham Town Council
Applicant: Show
Agent: Jo Ellis-Jones

Decision outlook

Day 65, past the statutory target. 93% of agricultural works in Chester are decided within thirteen weeks, which runs to 4 Nov 2026; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 4 Oct 2026.

predicted

Day 659 days past the 56-day target

85%decided within 8 weeks

68%approved

63decided in the last year

Plota live figures for agricultural works decided by Chester in the last twelve months, from validation. Chester decision record →