The Elms Lodge, Vicarage Lane, Gresford, Wrexham, LL12 8UT Data via plota.co.uk

P/2026/0642 - Full planning permission Under Consultation

Proposal

Change of use of annexe to holiday let Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 01:51

Application progress

✓

Received

2 Oct 2026

✓

Validated

20 Oct 2026

Decision

Expected by 15 Dec 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 16 Dec 2026 and 31 Dec 2026, from Wrexham's recent changes of use.

Documents 8

Plans & drawings 6

PDF Site Plan Planning · 21 Oct 2026 View ↗ PDF Location Plan Planning · 21 Oct 2026 View ↗ PDF Photo - Side Elevation of Annexe Planning · 2 Oct 2026 View ↗ PDF Photo - Location Plan (Image Only) Planning · 2 Oct 2026 View ↗ PDF Title Deed/Location Plan - Image Only Planning · 2 Oct 2026 View ↗ PDF Photo - Side Elevation of Annexe 2 (Image Only) Planning · 2 Oct 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form - Redacted Planning · 2 Oct 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 6

Nutrient neutrality catchment: River Dee

New homes and overnight accommodation must show nutrient neutrality before approval.

Natural England advice: extra wastewater in these catchments harms protected habitats, so schemes must offset their nutrient load, usually through credits.

Ramsar wetland about 61 m away: Midland Meres & Mosses Phase 2

Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.

Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.

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. A site survey can differ.

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.

SSSI about 62 m away: Vicarage Moss

Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.

Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.

Radon affected area, class 5

An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.

From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.

UKHSA radon ↗

Also on the record

Coalfield, development low risk area.

Not affected

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

Checked on 23 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 Mining Remediation Authority, 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.