Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Dismissed9 February 20263373317

52 Woodlands Road, Handforth, Wilmslow, Cheshire East, SK9 3AU

Planning appeal 3373317 at 52 Woodlands Road, Handforth, Wilmslow, Cheshire East, SK9 3AU (Cheshire East) was dismissed on 9 February 2026 by Inspector Russell J, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the use of the appeal site as a domestic garden incidental to the use of the dwellinghouse at 52 Woodlands Road is lawful because it had taken place without significant interruption for any ten year period by 14 October 2024.

Certificate of lawful use or development for use of part of woodland as domestic garden ancillary to dwellinghouse at 52 Woodlands Road

Authority
Cheshire East
Appeal type
ldc · Lawful Development Certificate
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
residential · Householder developments
Inspector
Russell J
Postcode
SK9 3AU

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the use of the appeal site as a domestic garden incidental to the use of the dwellinghouse at 52 Woodlands Road is lawful because it had taken place without significant interruption for any ten year period by 14 October 2024

What decided it

The appellant failed to demonstrate that the site and original garden were physically and functionally connected as a single planning unit, and that the material change of use to domestic garden use had occurred sufficiently long ago to satisfy the ten-year enforcement time limit by 14 October 2024.

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

57 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 2026

  1. Allowed27 October 20266004692
    Land Adjoining Jenny Heyes, Heyes Lane, Alderley Edge, SK9 7LH
  2. Dismissed23 October 20266014966
    10 Cocksheadhey Road, Bollington, Macclesfield, SK10 5QZ
  3. Dismissed22 October 20266013754
    Teal House 4 Shrewbridge Walk, Baddington Lane Baddington Lane, Nantwich, CW5 8AF
  4. Dismissed20 October 20266014343
    67 Earle St, Crewe, CW1 2AS
  5. 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.

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.