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Highfield House Nursing Home, 298, Park Lane, Macclesfield, SK11 8AE

18/0422MFULL PLANNINGApproved
Full

Approved on 31 July 2018

Council decision: Approved with conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use and extension of nursing home (C2) on the eastern elevation to form 6no. apartments (C3) and the erection of 2no. dwellings.

Submitted
5 February 2018
Ward
Macclesfield Central
  1. Received5 Feb
  2. Validated5 Feb
  3. Consult.7 Mar
  4. Target31 Jul
  5. Decided31 Jul

Decided in 176 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at HIGHFIELD HOUSE NURSING HOME, 298, PARK LANE, MACCLESFIELD, SK11 8AE. Cheshire East has handled 8,314 applications of this type. This one was decided in 176 days, 17 weeks longer than Cheshire East's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 41 applications across Macclesfield Central. We hold 2,345 applications in total for the SK11 postcode area.

86% of full applications at Cheshire East Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
SK11 8AE
Application type
FULL PLANNING
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Macclesfield Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 February 2018
Consultation expiry
7 March 2018
Consultation end
7 March 2018
Target decision date
31 July 2018

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Sammons Architectural Limited, 10, Cawdry Buildings, Fountain Street, Leek, ST13 6JP

Planning decision

Statutory period
176 days

Additional information

Documents
25

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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Source: Cheshire East

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