Bickley Town Farm Bickley Town Lane Bickley Malpas SY14 8EQ Data via plota.co.uk

26/02728/FUL - Full Application Awaiting decision

Proposal

Proposed barn conversions to form 5 dwellings including partial demolition, alterations and construction of new garaging. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 8 Oct 2026, 07:00

Application progress

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Received

27 Aug 2026

✓

Validated

14 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 9 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 9 Nov 2026 and 1 Dec 2026, from Chester's recent changes of use.

Comments are open until 9 Oct 2026

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Documents 16

Site constraints 4

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not 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.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

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

Also on the record

1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin; Nature improvement area: Meres and Mosses.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · 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.

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Important details

Council: Chester
Application type: Full Application
Postcode: SY14 8EQ
Received: 27 Aug 2026
Validated: 14 Sept 2026
Ward: Malpas
Parish: Nomansheath And District
Applicant: Show
Agent: Show

Decision outlook

Day 25 of the 56-day target. Chester usually decides changes of use by day 72.

prediction

Day 2547 days to the predicted decision (day 72)

45%decided within 8 weeks

68%approved

62decided in the last year

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

Bickley Town Farm Bickley Town Lane Bickley Malpas SY14 8EQ Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 16

Statements & assessments 9

Plans & drawings 1

Application forms 1

Other documents 5