1 Light Oaks Road, Culcheth And Glazebury, Warrington, WA3 5LH Data via plota.co.uk

2025/01453/FUL - Full Planning Refused

Proposal

Self-Build: Construction of 1 new bungalow and 2 detached self-build properties including landscaping and parking and creation of new access. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
week of 3 Nov 2025
✓
Validated
4 Nov 2025
✗
Refused
23 Dec 2025
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 23 Dec 2025 · Delegated decision · Last checked 3 Oct 2026

Documents 18

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 7

Flood zone 2, rivers and sea
Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Public footpath about 27 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
Also on the record
Inside the Glazebury built-up area; Green belt about 21 m away: Merseyside and Greater Manchester; Priority habitat about 44 m away: Deciduous woodland; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 2, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 26 September 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 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 1

Last sold for £630,000 in September 2025. Detached house, freehold.

1 September 2025£630,000

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

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Important details

Council
Warrington
Application type
Full Planning
Postcode
WA3 5LH
Received
week of 3 Nov 2025
Validated
4 Nov 2025
Ward
Culcheth, Glazebury and Croft
Parish
Culcheth and Glazebury
Case officer
Show
Target decision
30 Dec 2025
Decision
Refused
Decision date
23 Dec 2025
Decision level
Delegated decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Draw Plan Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 49 days from validation, 37 days faster than Warrington's median of 86 for new homes. Refused, as 31% of new homes here are.

29%decided within 8 weeks
69%approved
19%go to committee

Plota live figures for new homes decided by Warrington in the last twelve months, from validation. Warrington decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Comments by
22 Dec 2025
Statutory expiry
30 Dec 2025
Warrington
Planning Authority Score
5.5/10
Average
#122 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Warrington is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #72 out of 296. Only 29% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Warrington is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 80% approved vs 90% nationally.

One of the strictest councils
only 80% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Warrington decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
79%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #267 of 296
80%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #279 of 296
76%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #72 of 296
29%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #51 of 296
71%
Minor dwellings approved
77 decided (1-9 homes)
91%
Major dwellings approved
11 decided (10+ homes)
71%
Change of use approved
45 decided
883
Total decisions
188 refused in the year to March 2026

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