WINDMILL INN Chester Road, Tabley, Knutsford, Cheshire East, WA16 0HW Data via plota.co.uk

26/3179/FUL - Full Planning Pending Consideration

Proposal

The erection of a petrol filling station, EV charging hub, ancillary kiosk including a drive-thru operation plus car parking, landscaping and infrastructure and other associated development Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 8 Oct 2026, 06:51

Application progress

✓

Received

1 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 27 Oct 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 28 Nov 2026, from Cheshire East's recent commercial and major works.

Comments are open until 14 Oct 2026

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Documents 27

Statements & assessments 13

Plans & drawings 13

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form Application Form · 1 Sept 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 4

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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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.

National infrastructure project about 301 m away: A556 Knutsford to Bowdon Scheme

The site is about 301 m from the project boundary. Highway, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted.

Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.

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Also on the record

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, the Planning Inspectorate 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: Cheshire East
Application type: Full Planning
Postcode: WA16 0HW
Received: 1 Sept 2026
Validated: 1 Sept 2026
Ward: High Legh
Parish: Tabley
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 27 Oct 2026
Decision level: Delegation
Applicant: Show
Agent: Walsingham Planning

Decision outlook

Day 38 of the 56-day target. Cheshire East usually decides commercial and major works by day 88.

target

prediction

Day 3850 days to the predicted decision (day 88)

36%decided within 8 weeks

86%approved

13%go to committee

Plota live figures for commercial and major works decided by Cheshire East in the last twelve months, from validation. Cheshire East decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Comments by: 14 Oct 2026
Statutory expiry: 27 Oct 2026

Historical activity at this location

3 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2018 Refused

Erection of 2.5 metre high sculpture on 2 metre x 2 metre x 0.6 metre high concrete plinth

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2016 Approved

WINDMILL INN, CHESTER ROAD, TABLEY, CHESHIRE, WA16 0HW

Retention of external lighting approved under planning application reference 14/1778M.

16/3788M 28 Sep 2016

Cheshire East

Planning Authority Score

1.9/10

Poor

#274 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Cheshire East is one of the slowest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #268 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 65% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (91%) than the national average (90%).

Among the slowest councils in England

for householder decisions

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Cheshire East decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

87%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #168 of 296

91%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #170 of 296

39%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #268 of 296

65%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #279 of 296

72%

Minor dwellings approved

358 decided (1-9 homes)

76%

Major dwellings approved

25 decided (10+ homes)

79%

Change of use approved

119 decided

2,513

Total decisions

321 refused in the year to March 2026