THE FARMHOUSE Sugar Lane, Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire East, SK10 5SQ Data via plota.co.uk

26/0124/CLPUD - Certificate of Lawful Use / Development - Proposed Decided

Proposal

Certificate of proposed lawful development for detached outbuilding for use as garden store. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 1 Oct 2026, 04:33

Application progress

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Received

13 Jan 2026

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Negative Certificate

13 May 2026

Appeal

Appeal In Progress

Negative Certificate on 13 May 2026 · Delegation · Last checked 1 Oct 2026

Documents 12

Site constraints 8

1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin

Nearest: Winterfold Farmhouse and Attached Barn, Grade II, about 7 m from the postcode pin

The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.

Historic England ↗

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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Public footpath about 16 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 3b

Not 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.

Also on the record

Nature recovery project: Lost Wetlands; Radon affected area, class 2; Coalfield, development low risk area; National infrastructure project about 286 m away: Peak Cluster CCS Pipeline, at pre-application.

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 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.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £499,000 in November 2003. Flat or maisonette, freehold.

27 November 2003£499,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Council: Cheshire East
Application type: Certificate of Lawful Use / Development - Proposed
Postcode: SK10 5SQ
Received: 13 Jan 2026
Validated: 13 Jan 2026
Ward: Poynton West and Adlington
Parish: Adlington
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 10 Mar 2026
Decision: Negative Certificate
Decision date: 13 May 2026
Decision level: Delegation
Applicant: Show

Consultation & key dates

Comments by: 12 Feb 2026
Statutory expiry: 10 Mar 2026

Historical activity at this location

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2025

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2025

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Winterfold Farm Sugar Lane, Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire East, SK10 5SQ

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Cheshire East

Planning Authority Score

1.9/10

Poor

#274 of 296 councils

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Householder decisions

Cheshire East is one of the slowest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #268 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 65% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (91%) than the national average (90%).

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Cheshire East decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

87%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #168 of 296

91%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #170 of 296

39%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #268 of 296

65%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #279 of 296

72%

Minor dwellings approved

358 decided (1-9 homes)

76%

Major dwellings approved

25 decided (10+ homes)

79%

Change of use approved

119 decided

2,513

Total decisions

321 refused in the year to March 2026

THE FARMHOUSE Sugar Lane, Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire East, SK10 5SQ Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 12

Decision & officer reports 2

Statements & assessments 1

Plans & drawings 8

Application forms 1

Site constraints 8

Sales history 1

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