ULLARD HALL FARM Ullard Hall Lane, Plumley, Knutsford, Cheshire East, WA16 9PL Data via plota.co.uk

26/0642/PRIOR-6 - Prior Approval Refused

Proposal

Agricultural determination for Calf rearing building Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 1 Oct 2026, 03:29

Application progress

✓

Received

18 Feb 2026

✗

Refused

18 Mar 2026

Appeal

Not lodged

Refused on 18 Mar 2026 · Delegation · Last checked 1 Oct 2026

Documents 6

Site constraints 4

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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Public footpath about 19 m away

Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.

Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.

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 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 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: Cheshire East
Application type: Prior Approval
Postcode: WA16 9PL
Received: 18 Feb 2026
Validated: 18 Feb 2026
Ward: Chelford
Parish: Plumley with Toft & Bexton
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 18 Mar 2026
Decision: Prior Approval Refused
Decision date: 18 Mar 2026
Decision level: Delegation
Applicant: Show
Agent: Wharfe Rural Planning Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 28 days from validation, 12 days faster than Cheshire East's median of 40 for agricultural works. Refused, as 30% of agricultural works here are.

This one28d

Council40d

UK44d

68%decided within 8 weeks

70%approved

220decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry: 18 Mar 2026

Historical activity at this location

2 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025 Approved

Prior notification of agricultural livestock building

25/1184/PRIOR-6 25 Mar 2025

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2016 Approved

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Discharge of conditions 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13 of existing permission 15/0279M; Variation…

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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

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

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