Wild Meadow Farm Harbour Lane Wheelton Chorley PR6 8JS Data via plota.co.uk

26/00225/AGR - Agricultural (Prior Notification) Approved
Agricultural

Proposal

Agricultural determination for the erection of a building for hay and machinery storage Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
9 Mar 2026
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Approved
2 Apr 2026

Approved on 2 Apr 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 5 Jul 2026

Documents 10

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF DECISION - PRIOR APPROVAL NOT REQUIRED Decision · 2 Apr 2026 View ↗

Statements & assessments 1

PDF UPDATED PLANNING STATEMENT Report · 13 Mar 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 4

PDF PROPOSED ELEVATIONS Site Elevations, Building Plans etc. · 13 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED FLOOR PLANS Site Elevations, Building Plans etc. · 13 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED SITE PLAN Site Elevations, Building Plans etc. · 13 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF LOCATION PLAN Site Location Plan · 9 Mar 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 2

PDF CONSULTATION LETTER Correspondence · 13 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF CIL OFFICERS Consultee Response · 13 Mar 2026 View ↗

Other documents 2

PDF AMENDED ACKNOWLEDGEMENT LETTER Correspondence · 13 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF APPLICATIONFORMREDACTED Planning Application (inc initial correspondence) · 13 Mar 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 5

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), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
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.
Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 2; Coalfield, development low risk area.
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 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.

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Important details

Council
Chorley
Application type
Agricultural (Prior Notification)
Postcode
PR6 8JS
Received
9 Mar 2026
Validated
9 Mar 2026
Ward
Chorley North East
Parish
Wheelton
Case officer
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Target decision
5 Apr 2026
Decision
Prior App not required - Agr
Decision date
2 Apr 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Agent
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How this decision compares

Decided in 24 days from validation, about the council's usual 27 days. Approved, as 100% of agricultural works here are.

92%decided within 8 weeks
100%approved
30decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14763987
Planning Portal ref
PP-14763987
Comments by
3 Apr 2026
Statutory expiry
5 Apr 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

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2019 Approved
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2018 Approved
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2018 Approved
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Erection of 1no. detached dwellinghouse, following the demolition of existing buildings (…
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2018 Approved
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2017 Approved
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Chorley
Planning Authority Score
7.5/10
Good
#42 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Chorley is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #49 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (95%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils
for householder decisions
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Chorley decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
93%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #51 of 296
95%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #73 of 296
78%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #49 of 296
35%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #100 of 296
95%
Minor dwellings approved
77 decided (1-9 homes)
100%
Major dwellings approved
4 decided (10+ homes)
73%
Change of use approved
11 decided
553
Total decisions
39 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings