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Allowed26 March 20253351035

Land East of Froghall Road, Cheadle, ST10 2DW

Planning appeal 3351035 at Land East of Froghall Road, Cheadle, ST10 2DW (Staffordshire Moorlands District Council) was allowed on 26 March 2025 by Inspector Parkin A, following an inquiry. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: The effect of the proposal on the countryside, including with regard to landscape character.

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Authority
Staffordshire Moorlands District Council
Appeal type
major · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Inquiry
Development
residential · Major dwellings
Inspector
Parkin A

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • The effect of the proposal on the countryside, including with regard to landscape character
  • The effect of the proposal on designated heritage assets
  • The effect of the proposal on flood risk

What decided it

The Council's inability to demonstrate a five year housing land supply (only 2.95 years) engaged the tilted balance, and the resulting housing, affordable housing and self-build benefits outweighed the identified countryside and heritage harms.

The significant harm to the countryside and the less than substantial harm to the setting of a listed building were outweighed by the substantial housing, affordable housing, self-build and economic benefits, such that the adverse impacts did not significantly and demonstrably outweigh the benefits under the paragraph 11(d)(ii) tilted balance.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy SS2Policy SS10Policy H1Policy DC3Policy DC2Policy SS3Policy SS4
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 11Paragraph 174Paragraph 175Paragraph 212Paragraph 215Paragraph 232
Judgments
R. (on the application of Substation Action Save East Suffolk Ltd) v Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero [2024] EWCA Civ 12; Mead Realisations Ltd v Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government [2025] EWCA Civ 32

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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