2025
Approved
PENTRICH BREWING CO LTD Unit B And C Asher Lane Hammersmith Ripley Derbyshire DE5 3RE
Change of use from Class E (B2 & B8) to Sui Generis to allow the creation of a replacemen…
Asher House Asher Lane Business Park, Asher Lane, Hammersmith, Ripley, Derbyshire Data via plota.co.uk
Pending
AVA/2026/0366
Description
Change of use of former office building & car park to create self-storage building Class E (B8 storage) along with drive up storage units and containers. Data via plota.co.uk
Last checked
Decision outlook
Plota predicted a decision around 9 Oct 2026; it is now day 120.
Day 120, past the statutory target. 81% of full applications in Amber Valley are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 24 Aug 2026.
Day 12064 days past the 56-day target
56%decided within 8 weeks
87%approved
96,673decided in the last year
Plota live figures for full applications decided across the UK in the last twelve months, from validation; too few recent full applications in Amber Valley to go on. Amber Valley decision record →
Site constraints 9
Flood zone 3, rivers and sea
High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Coal mining development high risk area
Recorded coal mining features at or near the surface. Most planning applications here need a coal mining risk assessment.
From the Mining Remediation Authority, formerly the Coal Authority. The development high risk area marks recorded coal mining features at or near the surface: mine shafts and adits, shallow workings, mine gas and former opencast sites. Most planning applications there need a coal mining risk assessment; householder applications, changes of use and some minor works are exempt. Mine entry positions come from old plans and can be out by several metres, and unrecorded workings can exist anywhere in the coalfield.
Local nature reserve about 205 m away: Hammersmith Meadows, Ripley
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
Radon affected area, class 3; National infrastructure project about 451 m away: Chesterfield to Willington, at pre-application; Inside the Ripley (Amber Valley) built-up area; Priority habitat about 48 m away: Deciduous woodland; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 4, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
Not green belt · 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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Historical activity at this location
12 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.
Within ~100m
Nearby activity
2025
Approved
PENTRICH BREWING CO LTD Unit B And C Asher Lane Hammersmith Ripley Derbyshire DE5 3RE
Change of use from Class E (B2 & B8) to Sui Generis to allow the creation of a replacemen…
2019
Refused
Land Adjacent Asher Lane Business Park Asher Lane Hammersmith Ripley Derbyshire
Outline planning permission (all matters reserved) for residential redevelopment.
2019
Refused
Land Adjacent Asher Lane Business Park Asher Lane Hammersmith Ripley Derbyshire
Outline planning permission (all matters reserved) for residential redevelopment.
2020
Approved
A B GEE OF RIPLEY LTD Warehouse Asher Works Asher Lane Hammersmith Ripley Derbyshire DE5 3RE
Installation of high level windows within the existing south elevation of A.B.Gee of Ripl…
2020
Approved
A B GEE OF RIPLEY LTD Warehouse Asher Works Asher Lane Hammersmith Ripley Derbyshire DE5 3RE
Installation of high level windows within the existing south elevation of A.B.Gee of Ripl…
2020
Refused
A B GEE OF RIPLEY LTD Warehouse Asher Works Asher Lane Hammersmith Ripley Derbyshire DE5 3RE
Non material amendment to AVA/2017/1402 to extend a strip of high level windows to run al…
2020
Refused
A B GEE OF RIPLEY LTD Warehouse Asher Works Asher Lane Hammersmith Ripley Derbyshire DE5 3RE
Non material amendment to AVA/2017/1402 to extend a strip of high level windows to run al…
2017
Approved
A B GEE OF RIPLEY LTD Warehouse Asher Works Asher Lane Hammersmith Ripley Derbyshire DE5 3RE
New double-height entrance block, new secure gate and louvred partition wall.
2017
Approved
A B GEE OF RIPLEY LTD Warehouse Asher Works Asher Lane Hammersmith Ripley Derbyshire DE5 3RE
New double-height entrance block, new secure gate and louvred partition wall.
2016
Approved
Former Pentos Office Furniture Plc 33 Asher Lane Hammersmith Ripley Derbyshire DE5 3RE
Change the use of the land at Warehouse 3 from Storage & Distribution, Class B8 to a Gymn…
2016
Approved
Former Pentos Office Furniture Plc 33 Asher Lane Hammersmith Ripley Derbyshire DE5 3RE
Change the use of the land at Warehouse 3 from Storage & Distribution, Class B8 to a Gymn…
Amber Valley
Planning Authority Score
7.3/10
Good
#50 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Change of use
Amber Valley is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #74 out of 296. Householder applications are more likely to be approved here than most councils, with a 98% approval rate vs 90% nationally.
More permissive than most councils
98% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application.
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Amber Valley decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
96%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #6 of 296
98%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #9 of 296
75%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #74 of 296
41%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #157 of 296
88%
Minor dwellings approved
77 decided (1-9 homes)
94%
Major dwellings approved
16 decided (10+ homes)
96%
Change of use approved
48 decided
657
Total decisions
26 refused in the year to March 2026
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