STYPERSON POOL COTTAGE Sugar Lane, Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire East, SK10 5SH Data via plota.co.uk

26/1103/CLPUD - Certificate of Lawful Use / Development - Proposed Approved

Proposal

Certificate of lawful development for proposed erection of single storey side extension with rearwards projection. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received

24 Mar 2026

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Approved

19 May 2026

Approved on 19 May 2026 · Delegation · Last checked 1 Oct 2026

Documents 12

Site constraints 7

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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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; National infrastructure project about 261 m away: Peak Cluster CCS Pipeline, at pre-application; Coalfield, development low risk area; Priority habitat about 5 m away: No main habitat but additional habitats present.

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.

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Important details

Council: Cheshire East
Application type: Certificate of Lawful Use / Development - Proposed
Postcode: SK10 5SH
Received: 24 Mar 2026
Validated: 24 Mar 2026
Ward: Poynton West and Adlington
Parish: Adlington
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 19 May 2026
Decision: Positive Certificate
Decision date: 19 May 2026
Decision level: Delegation
Applicant: Show
Agent: Plande

How this decision compares

Decided in 56 days from validation, about the council's usual 56 days. Approved, as 91% of extensions here are.

This one56d

Council56d

UK55d

51%decided within 8 weeks

91%approved

1,733decided in the last year

Plota live figures for extensions decided by Cheshire East in the last twelve months, from validation. Cheshire East decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Comments by: 23 Apr 2026
Statutory expiry: 19 May 2026

Historical activity at this location

6 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2020 Approved

Little Breck Sugar Lane, Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire East, SK10 5SH

Extensions and alterations.

20/1861M 3 Aug 2020

2019 Approved

Little Breck Sugar Lane, Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire East, SK10 5SH

Demolition of the existing bungalow and the construction of a replacement bungalow.

19/4051M 16 Dec 2019

2019 Approved

Little Breck Sugar Lane, Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire East, SK10 5SH

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19/3545M 21 Oct 2019

2019 Approved

Little Breck Sugar Lane, Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire East, SK10 5SH

Certificate of lawful proposed development of a single storey side /rear extension and a…

19/2105M 12 Jul 2019

2018 Approved

Little Breck Sugar Lane, Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire East, SK10 5SH

Certificate of lawful proposed development of single storey side extension, single storey…

18/6168M 11 Dec 2018

2016 Withdrawn

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Cheshire East

Planning Authority Score

1.9/10

Poor

#274 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

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%).

Among the slowest councils in England

for householder decisions

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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

STYPERSON POOL COTTAGE Sugar Lane, Adlington, Macclesfield, Cheshire East, SK10 5SH Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 12

Decision & officer reports 2

Statements & assessments 1

Plans & drawings 7

Application forms 1

Consultation & comments 1

Site constraints 7

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