Land At Mere Hills Farm Chelford Road And Pepper Street, Chelford, Cheshire East Data via plota.co.uk

26/2010/OUT - Outline Planning Pending Consideration

Proposal

Outline planning application for residential development, including self-build plots; Use Class E commercial area including provision of a new GP Surgery; change of use of the existing barn to Class E(g)(iii); access off Chelford Road/A537; landscaping; drainage including SuDs; and public open space. All matters reserved except for access. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 9 Oct 2026, 08:16

Application progress

✓

Received

27 May 2026

Decision

Expected by 26 Aug 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision soon after comments close on 28 Sept 2026; it is now day 137.

The consultation period closed on 28 Sept 2026.

Documents 76

Statements & assessments 41

Plans & drawings 17

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form Application Form · 28 May 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 3

PDF Road Safety Audit Designers Response Supporting Information · 14 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF List of Consultees List of consultees · 17 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF 25d. Appendix 4 - United Utilities Pre-Development Enquiry Response Supporting Information · 28 May 2026 View ↗

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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Public byway open to all traffic about 7 m away

Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.

Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.

Agricultural land, grade 2

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 3. 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.

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 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: Outline Planning
Postcode: SK11 9BX
Received: 27 May 2026
Validated: 27 May 2026
Ward: Chelford
Parish: Ollerton with Marthall
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 26 Aug 2026
Decision level: Strategic Planning Board
Applicant: Show
Agent: Claremont Planning Consultancy Ltd

Decision outlook

Day 137, past the statutory target. 51% of changes of use in Cheshire East are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 9 Oct 2026.

target

predicted

Day 13781 days past the 56-day target

26%decided within 8 weeks

83%approved

286decided in the last year

Plota live figures for changes of use decided by Cheshire East in the last twelve months, from validation. Cheshire East decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Comments by: 28 Sept 2026
Statutory expiry: 26 Aug 2026

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

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Cheshire East

Planning Authority Score

1.9/10

Poor

#274 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Change of use

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

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

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