Birchencliffe Farm,Shrigley Road,Pott Shrigley,SK10 5SE Data via plota.co.uk

NP/TPO/0726/0748 - Works to Trees subject to TPO Decided

Proposal

G1 - 6x Sycamore - Crown lift to 5m above ground level, remove stem epicormic growth to 5m above ground level. Reason - for clearance. T1 - Sycamore - Reduce crown by up to 2m. Reason - to manage trees size. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 25 Oct 2026, 03:56

Application progress

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Received

28 Jul 2026

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Decided

Decided · Last checked 17 Oct 2026

Documents 3

Site constraints 10

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 3a

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 Enhancement Zone 2

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

National park about 46 m away: Peak District

Outside the park; its setting can still be raised.

Landscape, scenic beauty and wildlife carry great weight, and major development is only allowed in exceptional circumstances.

1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin

Nearest: Cophurst Cophurst Knot, Grade II, about 53 m from the postcode pin

The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.

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Also on the record

Nature recovery project: Lost Wetlands; Radon affected area, class 2; National infrastructure project about 221 m away: Peak Cluster CCS Pipeline, at pre-application; Coalfield, development low risk area; Priority habitat about 27 m away: Deciduous woodland.

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 Planning Inspectorate, 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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