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Allowed21 July 20253359308

Land at Winnington Avenue, Northwich, Cheshire, CW8 4EE

Planning appeal 3359308 at Land at Winnington Avenue, Northwich, Cheshire, CW8 4EE (Cheshire West and Chester) was allowed on 21 July 2025 by Inspector Plenty B, following a hearing. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: the effect of the proposal on the local highway network and on highway safety.

Re-engineering, remediation (through the creation of a development platform), restoration, and subsequent installation of a commercial scale

Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Appeal type
major · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Hearing
Development
utilities-energy · Other Major Developments
Inspector
Plenty B
Postcode
CW8 4EE

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • the effect of the proposal on the local highway network and on highway safety
  • whether material considerations would be of sufficient magnitude to outweigh any conflict found with the development plan

What decided it

The Inspector concluded that the highway network and pedestrian safety could adequately accommodate the additional HGV traffic once mitigated, removing the Council's sole reason for refusal, and that the substantial renewable energy and remediation benefits outweighed the limited residual conflict with the development plan.

the significant benefits of contamination remediation, drainage improvement, biodiversity net gain, a permissive pathway and renewable energy provision outweighed the limited conflict with the development plan (moderate landscape harm and low-level less-than-substantial heritage harm under Policy DM52)

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy STRAT10Policy DM52Policy ENV4Policy DM44Policy DM30

How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.

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