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26/02298/AGR - Agricultural Determination Approved

Proposal

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Application progress

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Received

22 Jul 2026

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Approved

18 Aug 2026

Approved on 18 Aug 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 19 Aug 2026

Documents 4

Site constraints 2

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.

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map 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.

Not affected

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

Checked on 11 September 2026. 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: Chester
Application type: Agricultural Determination
Postcode: CW9 6HA
Received: 22 Jul 2026
Validated: 22 Jul 2026
Ward: Marbury
Parish: Great Budworth
Case officer: Show
Decision: Prior Approval Requires Permission
Decision date: 18 Aug 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 27 days from validation, 24 days faster than Chester's median of 51 for agricultural works. Approved, as 80% of agricultural works here are.

This one27d

Council51d

UK54d

80%decided within 8 weeks

80%approved

45decided in the last year

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