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26/01173/S73 - Variation of Conditions Approved

Proposal

Conversion of agricultural building to two dwellings, addition of detached garage and new access on to School Lane. -Variation of condition 2 (approved plans) and 3 (materials) of Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 6 Oct 2026, 23:05

Application progress

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Received

16 Apr 2026

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Approved

6 Oct 2026

Approved on 6 Oct 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 6 Oct 2026

Documents 6

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Decision Decision · 6 Oct 2026 View ↗ PDF Officer Report Officer Report · 6 Oct 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM - WITHOUT PERSONAL DATA Application Form · 16 Apr 2026 View ↗

Associated applications 2

Part of

ConditionsApproved29 Jan 2026council archive

Conditions 2, 3 varied
- VariationConversion of agricultural building to two dwellings, addition of detached garage and new…This application16 Apr 202626/01173/S73

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 2

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 3. 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.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

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

Ramsar wetland about 232 m away: Midland Meres & Mosses - Phase 1

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 232 m away: Flaxmere Moss SSSI.

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 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.