Gordale Nursery and Garden Centre Chester High Road Neston CH64 8TF Data via plota.co.uk

26/01961/P14 - Solar equip on non-domestic premises Approved

Proposal

Removal of existing PV and Installation of new PV system to south facing roof elevation. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 09:06

Application progress

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Received

26 Jun 2026

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Approved

5 Aug 2026

Approved on 5 Aug 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 6 Aug 2026

Documents 3

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Officer Report Officer Report · 5 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF Decision Decision · 5 Aug 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM - WITHOUT PERSONAL DATA Application Form · 26 Jun 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

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 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.

Also on the record

National infrastructure project about 121 m away: Peak Cluster CCS Pipeline, at pre-application.

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, the Planning Inspectorate 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: Solar equip on non-domestic premises
Postcode: CH64 8TF
Received: 26 Jun 2026
Validated: 26 Jun 2026
Ward: Willaston And Thornton
Case officer: Show
Decision: Prior Approval not required
Decision date: 5 Aug 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 40 days from validation, 39 days slower than Chester's median of 1 for prior approvals. Approved, as 88% of prior approvals here are.

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