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Allowed10 March 20263373009

Cloud 9, Bow Green Road, Bowdon, Cheshire, WA14 3LX

Planning appeal 3373009 at Cloud 9, Bow Green Road, Bowdon, Cheshire, WA14 3LX (Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council) was allowed on 10 March 2026 by Inspector Hobbs J, by written representations.

Erection of an Apartment-Home with six units and demolition of the existing house

Authority
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council
Appeal type
minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector
Hobbs J

What decided it

Although the Council acted unreasonably in failing to reassess its housing land supply position and in not publishing the full appeal submission, the applicant did not incur unnecessary or wasted expense because the Council could not have granted permission without a completed biodiversity metric calculation and would have refused permission on other grounds even if it had acknowledged the expired permission for Plot 5.

What the Inspector cited

National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 125
Judgments
R (on the application of CPRE Kent) v Dover DC [2017] UKSC 79; South Buckinghamshire DC v Porter [2004] UKHL 33; North Wiltshire DC v Secretary of State for the Environment [1993] 65 P & CR 137

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