Eaton Lane, Cheshire

The site will be enhanced with species rich grassland, healthland, heritage orchards, hedgerows, woodland, parkland and ponds.

The site resides in the Shropshire, Cheshire and Staffordshire Plain National Character Area and within the LPA of Cheshire West and Chester. Scheme highlights:

  • Unit types

    • 140 Grassland units

    • 25 healthland and scrub units

    • 13 woodland units

    • 8 hedgerow units

    • 2.4 lake units

  • Section 106 with Cheshire West due in Q1 2025

  • The establishment of a heritage orchard along with the planting of larger specimen parkland trees

  • Woodland enhancement and expansion

  • Scrubland, hedgerows and numerous ponds and natural scrapes

  • Species-rich site in the form of medium distinctiveness grassland

Our technical consultants are Field Works and the HMMP designed was completed by FCPR.

Local Planning Authority

Cheshire West and Chester

National Character Area #61:

Shropshire, Cheshire and Staffordshire Plain

The Shropshire, Cheshire and Staffordshire Plain National Character Area (NCA) comprises most of the county of Cheshire, the northern half of Shropshire and a large part of north-west Staffordshire. This is an expanse of flat or gently undulating, lush, pastoral farmland, which is bounded by the Mersey Valley NCA in the north, with its urban and industrial development, and extending to the rural Shropshire Hills NCA in the south. To the west, it is bounded by the hills of the Welsh borders and to the east and south-east by the urban areas within the Potteries and Churnet Valley, Needwood and South Derbyshire Claylands, and Cannock Chase and Cank Wood NCAs.

*Text from Natural England’s, Natural Character Area website. Link here.