®Planning appeal decision
Land East of Froghall Road, Cheadle, ST10 2DW
- 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.
Framework references: 11, 174, 175, 212, 215, 232
Plan policies cited: Policy SS2, Policy SS10, Policy H1, Policy DC3, Policy DC2, Policy SS3, Policy SS4
Judgments cited: 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
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.