The Old Rectory Church Lane Aldford Chester CH3 6JE Data via plota.co.uk

Decided 25/03880/CAT

Council

Chester

Date received

11 Dec 2025

Date validated

11 Dec 2025

Postcode

CH3 6JE

Description

Ash (1466) - Fell to ground level due to significant decay main stem. Robinia (1500) - Fell to ground level due to partial failure of main union. Data via plota.co.uk

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Last checked 8 Oct 2026, 06:53

Site constraints 8

8 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin

Nearest: The Old Rectory, Grade II, about 2 m from the postcode pin · 8 Grade II

The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.

Show all 8 with distances

2 mThe Old RectoryGrade II
83 mK6 Telephone Kiosk, Between Frontages of Institute and Old RectoryGrade II
114 mChurchyard Wall and Gates, Church of St John the BaptistGrade II
116 mChurch of St John the BaptistGrade II
116 mCross and Stepped Base East of Path to South Porch of Church of St John the BaptistGrade II
123 mSundial and Pier West of South Porch of Church of St John the BaptistGrade II
132 mAldford Lodge to Eaton Park, and Attached Avenue CottageGrade II
147 mAldford Lodge Gates, Piers and Wing WallsGrade II

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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.

Scheduled monument about 49 m away: Aldford motte and bailey and shell keep castle

Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.

Nationally important archaeology protected by the Secretary of State. Work that affects the monument or its setting is rarely permitted.

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Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Registered park or garden about 68 m away: Eaton Hall

Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.

Registered parks and gardens, battlefields, world heritage sites and protected wrecks are designated heritage assets: harm needs clear and convincing justification.

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Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2; Special area of conservation about 450 m away: River Dee and Bala Lake / Afon Dyfrdwy a Llyn Tegid (England); SSSI about 454 m away: River Dee (England) SSSI.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

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 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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