Lower Hooleyhey Farm,Hooleyhey Lane, ,Lamaload Reservoir, ,Macclesfield Forest Data via plota.co.uk

NP/CEC/0126/0077 - Full Planning Permission Approved

Proposal

Proposed conversion and extension of former toilet block and storage garage to form one dwelling with garden, access, parking, landscaping and external works. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 27 Sept 2026, 05:43

Application progress

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Received

15 Apr 2026

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Committee

4 Sept 2026

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Approved

10 Sept 2026

Approved on 10 Sept 2026 · Last checked 16 Sept 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Peak District Planning Committee on 4 Sept 2026.

Approved

As officers recommended.

Officers advised approval because the conversion would conserve the barns, provide a viable use and avoid harm to landscape, ecology, highways or amenity.
The parish council questioned the dwelling’s need, water safety and future use; Natural England and the Tree Officer raised no objections.
Members approved the application with amended and additional conditions concerning hedging, birds, bins, the footpath and access.

Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, objections, committee debate, conditions and decision.

Source: Plota analysis of Peak District's committee minutes of 4 Sept 2026.

Documents 32

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Decision Notice Decision Notice Planning Application · 10 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Planning Committee Report Committee Report · 26 Aug 2026 View ↗

Statements & assessments 10

PDF NP_CEC_0126_0077 Ecology Response .msg Consultation - Ecology · 11 May 2026 View ↗ PDF RE_ Trees Consultation - NP_CEC_0126_0077 - JC - Lower Hooleyhey Farm - Hooleyhey Lane - Lamaload Reservoir - Macclesfield Fores.msg Consultation - Arboriculture · 7 May 2026 View ↗ PDF BNG Metric -20260305 UES Lower Hooleyhey Barn .pdf Supporting Documents Planning Application · 15 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF Bat Method Statement - Redacted (26-10-26) - 20-01-26.pdf Supporting Documents Planning Application · 20 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF Bat scoping and presence or absence survey (Redacted) - (02-12-2021) - 20-01-26.pdf Supporting Documents Planning Application · 20 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF Environmental Impact Assessment (redacted) - 20-01-26.pdf Supporting Documents Planning Application · 20 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF Sustainability Appraisal Report Final - Redacted (02-12-2021) - 20-01-26.pdf Supporting Documents Planning Application · 20 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (05-01-21) Redacted - 20-01-26.pdf Supporting Documents Planning Application · 20 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF Indicative Drainage Drawing (27-07-22) Redacted -DR-100-Rev-E - 20-01-26.pdf Plans and Drawings Planning Application · 20 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF Heritage Statement - Final (02-12-2021) - 20-01-26.pdf Justification Statement · 20 Jan 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 12

Application forms 2

PDF Application Form - 20-01-26.pdf Application Forms · 20 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF Protected Species Form Redacted (02-12-2021) - 20-01-26.pdf Protected Species Form · 20 Jan 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 3

PDF Rainow Parish Council - 20-05-2026.msg Consultation - External · 21 May 2026 View ↗ PDF Natural England response Consultation - External · 13 May 2026 View ↗ PDF Natural England response - Annex A.pdf Consultation - External · 13 May 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 3

Peak District National Park

The park authority decides applications here. Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Landscape, scenic beauty and wildlife carry great weight, and major development is only allowed in exceptional circumstances.

Agricultural land, grade 4

Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. 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.

Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone

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

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. 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.

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Important details

Council: Peak District
Application type: Full Planning Permission
Received: 15 Apr 2026
Validated: 15 Apr 2026
Parish: Rainow
Case officer: Show
Decision: Granted Conditionally
Decision date: 10 Sept 2026
Applicant: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 148 days from validation, 95 days slower than Peak District's median of 53 for changes of use. Approved, as 75% of changes of use here are.

This one148d

Council53d

UK56d

56%decided within 8 weeks

75%approved

41decided in the last year

Plota live figures for changes of use decided by Peak District in the last twelve months, from validation. Peak District decision record →