Land At Racecourse Road - Greaves Road, Wilmslow, SK9 5LW Data via plota.co.uk

Refused 25/4183/PIP
New homes
Council
Cheshire East 1.9/10
Date received
week of 10 Nov 2025
Decision date
week of 2 Mar 2026
Postcode
SK9 5LW

Description

Permission in principle for 2 dwellings. Data via plota.co.uk

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Planning committee

Decided by Cheshire East Northern Planning Committee on 4 Mar 2026.

Refused

Against officer advice: officers had recommended approval.

  • Officers advised approval because the site was Grey Belt, sustainably located and housing benefits outweighed countryside-policy conflict.
  • The town council and eleven residents’ letters raised Green Belt, landscape, flooding, access and wildlife concerns.
  • The committee refused the application against officer advice, saying the site was not Grey Belt and strongly contributed to Green Belt purpose (a) and (c).
Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officer advice, objections, speakers and committee decision.

Source: Plota analysis of Cheshire East's committee minutes of 4 Mar 2026.

Site constraints 9

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.
Local nature reserve about 69 m away: Lindow Common
Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
SSSI about 70 m away: Lindow Common SSSI
Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.
Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.
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
Nature recovery project: Lost Wetlands; Priority habitat about 4 m away: No main habitat but additional habitats present; Inside the Wilmslow built-up area; Open access land about 33 m away: Access Land - Combined Open Country, Registered Common Land and Section 16 Dedicated Land. MoD Byelaw, Section 28 Exclusions, Racecourses and Aerodromes and ECP Margin have been removed.; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 18 September 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 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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Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025
95 Racecourse Road, Wilmslow, Cheshire East, SK9 5LW
Certificate of proposed lawful Development for a proposed single storey full width rear e…
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2025
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25/2095/CLPUD
2025 Refused
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25/1148/HOUS
2020 Refused
Land Off Greaves Road, Greaves Road, Wilmslow,
Erection of one underground dwelling.
20/0622M
2020 Approved
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2020 Approved
Turf Cottage, 91a Racecourse Road, Wilmslow, Cheshire East, SK9 5LW
Proposed first floor infill extension to rear with 2no. dormers added to side elevation a…
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2020 Refused
Turf Cottage, 91a Racecourse Road, Wilmslow, Cheshire East, SK9 5LW
Proposed demolition of existing timber garage building and erection of two storey outbuil…
20/0297M
2019 Approved
85 Racecourse Road, Wilmslow, Cheshire East, SK9 5LW
Widening of the existing single storey rear extension and the addition of a new flat roof…
19/4342M
2019 Withdrawn
85 Racecourse Road, Wilmslow, Cheshire East, SK9 5LW
Prior approval of a flat-roofed single-storey extension extending 4.8m beyond the rear wa…
19/3520M
2018 Approved
83, RACECOURSE ROAD, WILMSLOW, SK9 5LW
Hip end dormer to the side elevation creating a bedroom.
18/0734M
2017 Refused
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Erection of two infill detached houses along with formation of new access to the site.
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2017 Approved
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Retrospective application to regularise rear patio height and boundary wall to approved p…
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2017 Approved
101, Racecourse Road, Wilmslow, SK9 5LW
Proposed extension at the rear of detached garage to form a Garden Room.
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2016 Withdrawn
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Rear facing single storey and two storey extension and alterations to rear paved area.
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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%).

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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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings