Cheshire Power Station North Road Ellesmere Port CH65 1AG Data via plota.co.uk

26/02356/LDC - Lawful Development Certificate Awaiting decision

Proposal

Installation of 5 gas engines (5 x 4.5MWe) ("the Cheshire West gas engines") with a total electrical capacity of 22.5MWe, and associated equipment and gas & electrical connections, on an area of approximately 0.32ha within the existing Cheshire Power Station site. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 28 Oct 2026, 03:25

Application progress

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Received

27 Jul 2026

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Validated

9 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 4 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision by 1 Dec 2026, from Chester's recent commercial and major works.

The consultation period closed on 3 Oct 2026.

Documents 3

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM - WITHOUT PERSONAL DATA Application Form · 27 Jul 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 5

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. 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.

Also on the record

Special protection area about 432 m away: Mersey Estuary; SSSI about 431 m away: New Ferry SSSI; Priority habitat about 16 m away: Deciduous woodland; National infrastructure project about 1181 m away: Mersey Tidal Power Project, at pre-application.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · 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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