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OTH/2026/0313 - Approval of details reserved by a condition Under Consultation

Proposal

Submission of details to comply with condition 2 (details and materials) on planning permission 25/00908/VRCON Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 26 Oct 2026, 13:24

Application progress

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Received

2 Apr 2026

Decision

Target date was 28 May 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. A decision is expected by 28 May 2026.

Documents 3

Associated applications 9

Part of

Listed buildingApproved23 Oct 2024council archive

Conditions 3, 6, 10 discharged · 13 decided (outcome not recorded) · 2 varied
- VariationApplication to vary condition 2 (Plans)29 Sep 202525/00908/VRCON
  Conditions 2, 6, 7, 8, 10 awaiting decision · 1 variation sought
  - ConditionsSubmission of details to comply with condition 2 (details and materials)This application2 Apr 2026OTH/2026/0313
  - Show 3 more · 3 pending
    - ConditionsSubmission of details to comply with condition 10 (External Lighting)1 Sep 2026OTH/2026/0789
    - VariationSection 73 application to vary condition 1 (Plans)8 Jun 2026PL/2026/0524
    - ConditionsSubmission of details to comply with conditions 2 (Large Scale Details), 6 (Repair Works), 7…11 May 2026OTH/2026/0431
- Show 3 more · 2 approved, 1 decided
  - ConditionsSubmission of details to comply with conditions 6 (repair works) and 10 (survey of roof)10 Oct 202525/01035/DOC
  - ConditionsSubmission of details to comply with condition 3 (large scale details)12 Sep 202525/00952/DOC
  - ConditionsSubmission of details to comply with condition 13 (Historic Building Record)31 Jul 202525/00795/DOC

Site constraints 6

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.

Local nature reserve about 104 m away: Hopwood Woodlands

Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.

Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2

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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