Moathouse Horsley Lane Beeston Chester CW6 9TP Data via plota.co.uk

26/03064/CAT - Application to fell/lop in Cons Area Awaiting decision

Proposal

1x Sycamore - Request to fell to ground level to prevent failure.Sycamore is 90% dead and on lean into pond. 1x Multi stemmed Willow (One stem has failed and is resting on a mature oak) - Request to fell remainder of tree to ground level and remove failed stem. 1x Willow (young tree that has self seeded and falling into pond) - Request to fell to ground level. 1x Apple - Request to fell to ground level due to significant decay at base. 1x Yew - Request to crown reduce by 0.5 m to retain healthy shape Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 8 Oct 2026, 07:16

Application progress

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Received

24 Sept 2026

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Validated

28 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 23 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 9 Nov 2026 and 16 Nov 2026, from Chester's recent tree and landscaping works.

Comments are open until 22 Oct 2026

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Documents 2

Statements & assessments 1

PDF STATEMENT OF REASONS FOR WORK Document · 24 Sept 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form Application Form · 24 Sept 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 7

Public bridleway about 16 m away

Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.

Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.

Agricultural land, grade 5

Very 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), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 2. 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.

SSSI about 52 m away: Peckforton Woods SSSI

Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.

Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2

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

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 3; 4 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin; Priority habitat about 13 m away: Deciduous woodland.

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, 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.