Chaigley School, Lymm Road, Thelwall, Warrington, WA4 2TE Data via plota.co.uk

2026/01188/TPOCA - TPO Conservation Area Approved
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

Proposed remedial works and felling to trees Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
7 Sept 2026
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Approved
7 Oct 2026

Approved on 7 Oct 2026 · Delegated decision · Last checked 19 Oct 2026

Documents 5

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Decisions - Trees Conservation Decision Notice · 7 Oct 2026 View ↗ PDF Officer Report Officer Report · 2 Oct 2026 View ↗

Statements & assessments 1

PDF Risk assessment Tree Reports/Plans · 7 Sept 2026 View ↗

Application forms 2

PDF Safety works schedule Application Forms/Certificates · 7 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF application form Application Forms/Certificates · 7 Sept 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 10

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.
Read the government guidance ↗
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 ↗
Thelwall Village conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Council document ↗
Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
1 listed building within 150 m
Nearest: Chaigeley School, Grade II, 60 m away
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.
Historic England ↗
Also on the record
Nature recovery project: Lost Wetlands; SSSI 459 m away: Woolston Eyes SSSI; Inside the Warrington built-up area; Priority habitat 19 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
No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 17 October 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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Other new applications on this street

3 Aug 2026Approved

Chaigeley School, CHAIGELEY SCHOOL Lymm Road, Grappenhall And Thelwall, Warrington, WA4 2TE

Remedial works to trees around the perimeter

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Remedial works to 3 No. Trees

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Important details

Council
Warrington
Application type
TPO Conservation Area
Postcode
WA4 2TE
Received
7 Sept 2026
Validated
7 Sept 2026
Ward
Lymm North and Thelwall
Parish
Grappenhall and Thelwall
Case officer
Show
Target decision
19 Oct 2026
Decision
Granted
Decision date
7 Oct 2026
Decision level
Delegated decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Holly Oak Tree Services Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 30 days from validation, 24 days faster than Warrington's median of 54 for tree and landscaping works. Approved, as 98% of tree and landscaping works here are.

57%decided within 8 weeks
98%approved
129decided in the last year

Plota live figures for tree and landscaping works decided by Warrington in the last twelve months, from validation. Warrington decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Comments by
29 Sept 2026
Statutory expiry
19 Oct 2026

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025
Chaigeley School, Chaigeley School Lymm Road, Grappenhall And Thelwall, Warrington, WA4 2TE
Car parking extension to provide 28 additional car bays to the existing school and reconf…
2025/00351/FUL
2024 Approved
Chaigeley School, CHAIGELEY SCHOOL Lymm Road, Grappenhall And Thelwall, Warrington, WA4 2TE
Remedial pruning to 3x group of trees and x2 no. trees.
2024/00721/TPOCA
2024 Approved
Chaigeley School, CHAIGELEY SCHOOL Lymm Road, Grappenhall And Thelwall, Warrington, WA4 2TE
Fell x2 trees and remedial pruning to x1 group of trees.
2024/00722/TPO
2024 Approved
Beech Cottage Lymm Road, Grappenhall And Thelwall, Warrington, WA4 2TD
Proposed remedial work to 6 No. Trees
2024/00707/TPOCA
2024
Chaigeley School, Chaigeley School Lymm Road, Grappenhall And Thelwall, Warrington, WA4 2TE
Fell 4x Tree, Remedial works to x50 Trees
2024/00305/TPO
2023 Refused
Land Next To Beech Farm Offices , Lymm Cheshire , WA4 2TD
Change of use to dog exercise field
2023/00688/FUL
2019 Approved
Chaigeley School, Chaigeley School Lymm Road, Grappenhall And Thelwall, Warrington, WA4 2TE
TPO Conservation - Woodland management and vegetation clearance around pond edge, predomi…
2019/35166
2018 Approved
Chaigeley School, Chaigeley School Lymm Road, Grappenhall And Thelwall, Warrington, WA4 2TE
Trees in a Conservation area - Lime situated to the right of the war memorial - Proposed…
2018/33833
2018 Withdrawn
Beech Cottage Lymm Road, Grappenhall And Thelwall, Warrington, WA4 2TD
Listed Building - Proposed removal of an internal wall and draft lobby replacement rear e…
2018/32333
2017 Refused
Beech Cottage Lymm Road, Grappenhall And Thelwall, Warrington, WA4 2TD
Listed Building - Removal of an internal wall, removal of an internal lobby, replacement…
2017/31764
2016 Approved
Chaigeley School, Chaigeley School Lymm Road, Grappenhall And Thelwall, Warrington, WA4 2TE
TPO Conservation Area - Propose To Remove 2 Poplar Stems that are growing close to the bu…
2016/27727
Warrington
Planning Authority Score
5.5/10
Average
#122 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Other 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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings