Caravan Site Alport Farm Overton Heath Lane Overton Malpas SY14 7DG Data via plota.co.uk

26/02995/FUL - Full Application Awaiting decision

Proposal

Material change of use of agricultural land to a rally field for organised caravan, motorhome and camping rallies, together with educational, community, school, Duke of Edinburgh Award, charitable and filming activities, utilising two existing access points and an existing hardstanding parking area. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 02:53

Application progress

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Received

21 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 16 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 16 Nov 2026 and 8 Dec 2026, from Chester's recent changes of use.

Comments are open until 11 Nov 2026

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Documents 10

Statements & assessments 2

PDF DESIGN AND ACCESS STATEMENT Document · 21 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF BIODIVERSITY STATEMENT Document · 21 Sept 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM - WITHOUT PERSONAL DATA Application Form · 21 Sept 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 5

Public byway open to all traffic about 18 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.

Scheduled monument about 65 m away: Medieval and post-medieval settlement remains and associated field system immediately east of Overton Hall

Its setting is a consideration for work nearby.

Nationally important archaeology protected by the Secretary of State. Work that affects the monument or its setting is rarely permitted.

Historic England ↗

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

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.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

Checked on 15 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 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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