The Hedges 27 Westage Lane Great Budworth Northwich Cheshire West And Chester CW9 6HJ Data via plota.co.uk

26/02761/CAT - Application to fell/lop in Cons Area Approved

Proposal

1 x Hornbeam: Request to fell to ground level and replant a smaller species away from fence line due tree outgrowing small garden and causing damage to fence and footpath. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
1 Sept 2026
✓
Approved
13 Oct 2026

Approved on 13 Oct 2026 · Last checked 18 Oct 2026

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 2. 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.
Also on the record
Nature recovery project: Lost Wetlands; 2 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin; National infrastructure project about 1902 m away: Keuper Gas Storage Project.
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.

Sales history 2

Last sold for £510,000 in August 2016. Detached house, freehold.

22 August 2016£510,000
29 June 2007£425,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

Building

Floor area143 m² (1,539 sq ft)
Energy ratingC (69 out of 100), could reach B
PropertyDetached house, 7 habitable rooms
Built1983 to 1990
HeatingBoiler and radiators, mains gas
WallsCavity wall, filled cavity

From the energy performance certificate lodged in March 2016, the latest held for this property, matched to this application by its address. The building may have changed since. View the certificate

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Important details

Council
Chester
Application type
Application to fell/lop in Cons Area
Postcode
CW9 6HJ
Received
1 Sept 2026
Validated
1 Sept 2026
Ward
Marbury
Parish
Great Budworth
Case officer
Show
Decision
Notification Closed
Decision date
13 Oct 2026
Applicant
Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 42 days from validation, about the council's usual 45 days. Approved, as 99% of tree and landscaping works here are.

95%decided within 8 weeks
99%approved
373decided in the last year

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

Public comments

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Last counted 18 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15192050
Planning Portal ref
PP-15192050
Env. assessment
No

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Energy performance: Energy performance certificates from the Energy Performance of Buildings Register, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright 2026.