Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Allowed26 October 20233325237

Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd, 14 Woodford Road, Bramhall, Stockport, SK7 1JJ

Planning appeal 3325237 at Sainsburys Supermarkets Ltd, 14 Woodford Road, Bramhall, Stockport, SK7 1JJ (Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council) was allowed on 26 October 2023 by Inspector Jones R, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect of the 2 totem signs on the amenity of the area, having particular regard to the setting of the Syddal Park Conservation Area.

13 new signs associated with the proposed new Sainsbury’s local store. The signage comprises: 3no. fascia signs; 1no. projecting sign; 2no. ‘welcome panel’ signs; 1no. ATM surround; 4no. car park signs; and 2no. totem signs

Authority
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
Appeal type
commercial · Commercial Appeal Service (CAS)
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
advertisement · Other minor developments
Inspector
Jones R
Postcode
SK7 1JJ

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • The effect of the 2 totem signs on the amenity of the area, having particular regard to the setting of the Syddal Park Conservation Area

What decided it

The totem signs would not cause harm to visual amenity or the setting of the Syddal Park Conservation Area and relate appropriately to their respective settings.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy SIE-3 of the Core Strategy DPD (2011)

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.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

55 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision
An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter
Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.
Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app
Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.
Start your free trial

More decisions in Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2023

  1. Dismissed7 April 20266003888
    124 Wellington Rd North, Heaton Norris, Stockport, SK4 2LL
  2. Dismissed27 November 20253372082
    29 Hall Street, Offerton, Stockport, Cheshire, SK1 4DA
  3. Dismissed3 November 20253369795
    Land and Buildings on the West Side of Kingsway, Cheadle, SK8 3GY
  4. Dismissed18 December 20243350992
    89 Stanley Road, Cheadle Hulme, Cheadle, SK8 6PL
  5. Dismissed25 October 20243347993
    2 Villdale Avenue, Stockport, SK2 5SQ

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.

In the app this decision sits on the map beside every appeal around it, with its letter to read and the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out.