®Planning appeal decision
Chesters Croft, Spath Lane East, Cheadle Hulme, Cheadle, SK8 7NN
Planning appeal 3312461 at Chesters Croft, Spath Lane East, Cheadle Hulme, Cheadle, SK8 7NN (Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council) was dismissed on 20 June 2025 by Inspector Russell J, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the field is part of the same planning unit as Chester's Croft so that it has or has had an 'existing use' as part of and/or in conjunction with a caravan site.
Use of land as part of a caravan site, including the stationing of caravans for human habitation and use in conjunction with land on which caravans are so stationed
- Appeal type
- ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
- Procedure
- Inquiry
- Development
- caravan-gypsy · Major traveller and caravan pitches
- Inspector
- Russell J
- Postcode
- SK8 7NN
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the field is part of the same planning unit as Chester's Croft so that it has or has had an 'existing use' as part of and/or in conjunction with a caravan site
- Whether use of the field as part of and/or in conjunction with a caravan site is lawful because, on the date of the LDC application, it was too late for the Council to take enforcement action against it
What decided it
The appellant failed to demonstrate, on the balance of probabilities, that the field formed part of the same planning unit as, or was functionally connected to, Chester's Croft caravan park.
What the Inspector cited
- Judgments
- Burdle v Secretary of State for the Environment [1972] 1WLR 1207; R (on the application of Campbell Court Property) v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions [2001] EWHC Admin 102; Johnston v Secretary of State for the Environment (1974) 28 PCR 424; Rawlins v Secretary of State for the Environment [1990] WL 754819; Church Commissioners for England v Secretary of State for the Environment (1996) 71 P&CR 73; Royale Parks Ltd v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government [2021] EWCA Civ 1101; R v Axbridge Rural District Council ex parte Wormald [1964] 1 WLF 442; Berkeley Leisure Group Ltd [1995] Lexis Citation 3484
How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.
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