Tatton Motorway Service Area, Land Between Junctions 7 & 8 Of The M56, WA14 3SD Data via plota.co.uk

120019/ART18/26 - Article 18 consultations Awaiting decision
Admin / proceduralCommercial premises

Proposal

Article 18 consultation from Cheshire East Council in respect of . Variation of Conditions 2, 14, 23, 24 and 30 on approval : Variation of Condition 2 - approved plans, variation to wording of Conditions 26 - highway improvements and 43 - updated energy strategy for the buildings to amend trigger for discharge, and variation of Conditions 10 - badger survey, 12 - ecological management plan, 13 - Habitat creation and management, 14 - biodiversity enhancement, 20 - tree protection, 34 - bird hazard management, 40 - CEMP and 48 - archaeology to amend to compliance conditions on application - APR/ Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
4 Sept 2026
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Consultation
21 Sept 2026
Decision
Expected by 30 Oct 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. A decision is expected by 30 Oct 2026.

Comments are open until 12 Oct 2026

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Documents

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Site constraints 5

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 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 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.
National infrastructure project about 25 m away: A556 Knutsford to Bowdon Scheme
The site is about 25 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.
Planning Inspectorate project page ↗
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
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
Trafford
Application type
Article 18 consultations
Postcode
WA14 3SD
Received
4 Sept 2026
Validated
4 Sept 2026
Applicant
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Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 2 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Consultation
21 Sept 2026
Comments by
12 Oct 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025 Withdrawn
Tatton Motorway Service Area, Altrincham, WA14 3SD
Article 18 consultation from Cheshire East Council in relation to 25/4420/DSC (Discharge…
118013/ART18/25
2025
Tatton Motorway Service Area, Altrincham, WA14 3SD
Discharge of conditions 21 and 29 on approved application 22/0873M - Erection of a Motorw…
25/4420/DSC
2022 Refused
Land Between Junctions 7 And 8 Of The M56 WA14 3SD
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107928/ART16/22
2018 Approved
BUILDING 2 - YARWOOD HEATH FARM, YARWOOD HEATH LANE, ROSTHERNE, BOSLEY, CHESHIRE, WA14 3SD
Prior change of use of agricultural building to business (class B1(b)).
18/1790M
Trafford
Planning Authority Score
5.2/10
Average
#142 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Trafford ranks #120 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (89%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Trafford decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
87%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #185 of 296
89%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #212 of 296
71%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #120 of 296
34%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #95 of 296
86%
Minor dwellings approved
73 decided (1-9 homes)
64%
Major dwellings approved
11 decided (10+ homes)
78%
Change of use approved
27 decided
1,430
Total decisions
182 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings