CANALSIDE FARM Cottons Lane, Sandbach, Cheshire East, CW11 4RB Data via plota.co.uk

Approved 25/3651/FUL

New homes

Council

Cheshire East 1.9/10

Date received

week of 13 Oct 2025

Decision date

week of 30 Mar 2026

Postcode

CW11 4RB

Description

Construction of 1 new dwelling and associated works. Data via plota.co.uk

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Last checked 4 Oct 2026, 07:44

Planning committee

Decided by Cheshire East Southern Planning Committee on 1 Apr 2026.

Approved

As officers recommended.

Officers advised approval because housing and economic benefits outweighed the identified policy conflict and other adverse impacts.
Consultees raised no objections, the town council sought protection for existing trees, and no public representations were received.
The committee approved the application subject to 12 conditions; one councillor left after declaring an interest.

Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, consultation responses, speaker and committee decision.

Source: Plota analysis of Cheshire East's committee minutes of 1 Apr 2026.

Site constraints 7

Flood zone 2, rivers and sea

Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.

The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.

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Public bridleway about 18 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.

Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin; Inside the Wheelock built-up area; Priority habitat about 45 m away: Deciduous woodland; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 4, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.

Not affected

Not green belt · 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.

Sales history 2

Last sold for £714,500 in August 2006. Detached house, freehold.

8 August 2006£714,500

18 December 1998£150,000

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

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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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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