No 1 Drive Cottages 57 Oaklands Road Chirk Bank Wrexham Shropshire LL14 5DW Data via plota.co.uk

26/02457/FUL - Full Planning Application Approved

Proposal

Double storey extension to rear of property, single storey to side Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 20 Sept 2026, 00:03

Application progress

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Received

30 Jun 2026

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Consultation

5 Jul 2026

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Approved

18 Sept 2026

Approved on 18 Sept 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 19 Sept 2026

Documents 4

Site constraints 11

World heritage site: World Heritage Site

Nationally designated heritage. Its significance and setting carry great weight.

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

Scheduled monument about 16 m away: A 1.43km length of the Ellesmere Canal and associated features at Chirk Bank

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.

Historic England ↗

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2

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

Radon affected area, class 5

An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.

From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.

UKHSA radon ↗

Special area of conservation about 263 m away: River Dee and Bala Lake / Afon Dyfrdwy a Llyn Tegid (England)

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.

Also on the record

SSSI about 265 m away: River Dee (England) SSSI; 1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin; Coalfield, development low risk area; Inside the Chirk Bank built-up area; Priority habitat about 17 m away: Deciduous woodland; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.

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 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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Important details

Council: Shropshire
Application type: Full Planning Application
Postcode: LL14 5DW
Received: 30 Jun 2026
Validated: 30 Jun 2026
Ward: St Martin's
Parish: Weston Rhyn
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 18 Sept 2026
Decision: Grant Permission
Decision date: 18 Sept 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: St.oswalds Architectrual

How this decision compares

Decided in 80 days from validation, 29 days slower than Shropshire's median of 51 for extensions. Approved, as 93% of extensions here are.

This one80d

Council51d

UK55d

75%decided within 8 weeks

93%approved

802decided in the last year

Plota live figures for extensions decided by Shropshire in the last twelve months, from validation. Shropshire decision record →

Public comments

2comments received

1 objecting1 neutral

Last counted 19 Sept 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-14997088
Planning Portal ref: PP-14997088
Comments by: 19 Aug 2026
Site or press notice: 5 Jul 2026
Statutory expiry: 25 Aug 2026
Env. assessment: No

Historical activity at this location

2 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2018 Approved

Brynawel 49 Oaklands Road Chirk Bank Wrexham Shropshire LL14 5DW

Discharge of Condition 3 (Materials) of planning permission 17/05828/FUL

18/01474/DIS 25 Apr 2018

2017 Approved

Brynawel 49 Oaklands Road Chirk Bank LL14 5DW

Erection of two storey flat roofed rear extension over existing single story building foo…

17/05828/FUL 27 Feb 2018

Shropshire

Planning Authority Score

7.3/10

Good

#53 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Shropshire is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #53 out of 296. Only 29% of applications have the time limit extended, well below the 41% national average - the council usually decides on time. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (93%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils

for householder decisions

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Shropshire decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

87%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #179 of 296

93%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #136 of 296

78%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #53 of 296

29%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #50 of 296

68%

Minor dwellings approved

350 decided (1-9 homes)

63%

Major dwellings approved

35 decided (10+ homes)

78%

Change of use approved

27 decided

2,083

Total decisions

273 refused in the year to March 2026