Compstall Mills Andrew Street Compstall Stockport SK6 5HW Data via plota.co.uk

Pending DC/100094

Council

Stockport 8/10

Date received

2 Sept 2026

Date validated

28 Sept 2026

Postcode

SK6 5HW

Description

Outline planning application with all matters reserved for the partial demolition, refurbishment and redevelopment of Compstall Mills for up to 141 residential dwellings (Use Class C3), with associated public open spaces, landscaping, highways and other infrastructure Data via plota.co.uk

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Last checked 8 Oct 2026, 05:24

Decision outlook

Plota predicts a decision between 6 Nov 2026 and 14 Nov 2026, from Stockport's recent demolitions.

Day 11 of the 91-day target. Stockport usually decides demolitions by day 42.

prediction

Day 1180 days to the 91-day target

84%decided within 8 weeks

94%approved

126decided in the last year

Plota live figures for demolitions decided by Stockport in the last twelve months, from validation. Stockport decision record →

Site constraints 9

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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Compstall conservation area

Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.

The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.

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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), 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.

Local nature reserve about 122 m away: Etherow Country Park

Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.

Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.

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

Nature recovery project: Lost Wetlands; Radon affected area, class 2; 3 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin; Coalfield, development low risk area.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 8 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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Stockport

Planning Authority Score

8/10

Excellent

#27 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Stockport is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #46 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (96%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils

for householder decisions

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Stockport decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

95%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #29 of 296

96%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #61 of 296

79%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #46 of 296

32%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #70 of 296

91%

Minor dwellings approved

64 decided (1-9 homes)

100%

Major dwellings approved

13 decided (10+ homes)

82%

Change of use approved

49 decided

1,318

Total decisions

64 refused in the year to March 2026