Green Acre Farm Walton Back Lane Walton Chesterfield S42 7LW Data via plota.co.uk

26/00387/FL - FULL APPLICATION Refused

Proposal

Creation of new access and yard for agricultural purposes (Revised scheme of ) (Additional info) Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
14 May 2026
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Validated
27 May 2026
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Consultation
21 Jul 2026
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Refused
20 Aug 2026
Appeal
Appeal lodged

Refused on 20 Aug 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 8 Oct 2026

Documents 27

Consultation & comments 10

PDF HIGHWAYS COMMENTS Appeals - Original Consultee comments · 11 Aug 2026 View ↗ PDF DWT COMMENTS Appeals - Original Consultee comments · 21 Jul 2026 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Appeals - Original Objection · 19 Jun 2026 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Appeals - Original Objection · 17 Jun 2026 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Appeals - Original Objection · 16 Jun 2026 View ↗
PDF HIGHWAYS COMMENT Appeals - Original Consultee comments · 15 Jun 2026 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Appeals - Original Objection · 4 Jun 2026 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Appeals - Original Objection · 4 Jun 2026 View ↗
PDF COAL COMMENTS Appeals - Original Consultee comments · 3 Jun 2026 View ↗
PDF Objector’s name hidden Show Appeals - Original Objection · 31 May 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 5

Green belt: South and West Yorkshire
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 ↗
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), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. 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 Expansion Zone
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 2; Coalfield, development low risk area.
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, the Mining Remediation Authority, 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.

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Important details

Application type
FULL APPLICATION
Postcode
S42 7LW
Received
14 May 2026
Validated
27 May 2026
Ward
Brampton And Walton Ward
Parish
Holymoorside And Walton Parish
Case officer
Show
Target decision
21 Aug 2026
Decision
REFUSED
Decision date
20 Aug 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
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How this decision compares

Decided in 85 days from validation, 4 days faster than North East Derbyshire's median of 89 for full applications. Refused, as 17% of full applications here are.

38%decided within 8 weeks
83%approved
25decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by North East Derbyshire in the last twelve months, from validation. North East Derbyshire decision record →

Public comments

1comment received
1 objecting

1 neighbour consulted · Last counted 24 Sept 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14933602
Planning Portal ref
PP-14933602
Neighbours
27 May 2026
Consultation
21 Jul 2026
Comments by
4 Aug 2026
Site or press notice
3 May 2026
Statutory expiry
22 Jul 2026
Env. assessment
No
North East Derbyshire
Planning Authority Score
4.6/10
Below average
#168 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

North East Derbyshire ranks #166 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (93%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
North East Derbyshire decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
92%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #89 of 296
93%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #133 of 296
62%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #166 of 296
44%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #181 of 296
87%
Minor dwellings approved
45 decided (1-9 homes)
100%
Major dwellings approved
8 decided (10+ homes)
82%
Change of use approved
28 decided
532
Total decisions
42 refused in the year to March 2026