4 Shores Lane, Burland, Cheshire, CW5 8LU

Planning appeal 3373189 at 4 Shores Lane, Burland, Cheshire, CW5 8LU (Cheshire East) was dismissed on 5 December 2025 by Inspector Mee K, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the site is suitable for the proposed development, having regard to a) relevant policies for the location of housing and b) its accessibility to services and facilities.

Proposed dwelling on land adjacent to 4 Shores Lane

Authority: Cheshire East
Appeal type: minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure: Written Representations
Development: residential · Minor Dwellings
Inspector: Mee K
Postcode: CW5 8LU

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

Whether the site is suitable for the proposed development, having regard to a) relevant policies for the location of housing and b) its accessibility to services and facilities
The effect of the proposed development on the character and appearance of the surrounding area

What decided it

The site's location outside any settlement boundary in open countryside, its poor accessibility to services and facilities without reliance on private cars, and the harmful effect of infilling a vital gap on the semi-rural character of the area outweigh the limited housing benefit when the tilted balance is applied.

The limited but positive contribution to housing supply was outweighed by the adverse impacts of locational unsuitability and harm to character and appearance when assessed against the policies in the Framework taken as a whole, such that the presumption in favour of sustainable development did not apply.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies: Policy PG 6Policy SD 1Policy SD 2Policy PG 10Policy SE 1Policy GEN 1
National Planning Policy Framework: Paragraph 11Paragraph 110Paragraph 115

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

11 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 Cheshire East

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2025

Allowed27 October 20266004692
Land Adjoining Jenny Heyes, Heyes Lane, Alderley Edge, SK9 7LH
Dismissed23 October 20266014966
10 Cocksheadhey Road, Bollington, Macclesfield, SK10 5QZ
Dismissed22 October 20266013754
Teal House 4 Shrewbridge Walk, Baddington Lane Baddington Lane, Nantwich, CW5 8AF
Dismissed20 October 20266014343
67 Earle St, Crewe, CW1 2AS
Dismissed16 October 20266015255
Somerford Grange Trap Road, Somerford Booths, Congleton, CW12 2LT

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.