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2023/01074/OUTM - Outline Planning (Major) Approved

Proposal

Outline planning application with all matters reserved except for access; for the erection of up to 170 residential dwellings, public open space, landscaping and sustainable drainage system (SuDS) and vehicular access points. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 1 Oct 2026, 06:08

Application progress

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Received

30 Aug 2023

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Approved

14 Nov 2025

Approved on 14 Nov 2025 · Committee Decision · Last checked 1 Oct 2026

Documents 34

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF Decision Notice Decision Notice · 14 Nov 2025 View ↗

Statements & assessments 20

Site constraints 6

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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Priority habitat: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh

A habitat of principal importance. It shapes the ecology work and the biodiversity net gain a scheme has to show.

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 Expansion Zone

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 recovery project: Lost Wetlands.

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.

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Important details

Council: Warrington
Application type: Outline Planning (Major)
Received: 30 Aug 2023
Validated: 30 Aug 2023
Ward: Lymm North and Thelwall
Parish: Lymm
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 14 Nov 2025
Decision: Granted
Decision date: 14 Nov 2025
Decision level: Committee Decision
Applicant: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 807 days from validation, 721 days slower than Warrington's median of 86 for new homes. Approved, as 66% of new homes here are.

This one807d

Council86d

UK57d

29%decided within 8 weeks

66%approved

18%go to committee

Plota live figures for new homes decided by Warrington in the last twelve months, from validation. Warrington decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Comments by: 4 Mar 2024
Committee: 20 Jun 2024
Statutory expiry: 14 Nov 2025

Warrington

Planning Authority Score

5.5/10

Average

#122 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Major dwellings

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