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Lightley Court Lightley Close, Sandbach, Cheshire East

20/0418CFull PlanningApproved
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Approved on 4 May 2020

Council decision: Approved With Conditions

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Proposal

Minor external lighting improvements to the car park of Lightley Court sheltered scheme. It is proposed two 6m lighting columns are erected in a central position in the private car park and away from the public highway (Lightley Close)

Submitted
30 January 2020
Ward
Sandbach Ettiley Heath and Wheelock
  1. Received30 Jan
  2. Validated30 Jan
  3. Consult.16 Mar
  4. Target4 May
  5. Decided4 May

Decided in 95 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Lightley Court Lightley Close, Sandbach, Cheshire East,. Cheshire East has handled 8,314 applications of this type. This one was decided in 95 days, 6 weeks longer than Cheshire East's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Sandbach Ettiley Heath and Wheelock.

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

Application type
Full Planning
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Sandbach

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 January 2020
Consultation expiry
16 March 2020
Consultation end
16 March 2020
Target decision date
4 May 2020

Planning decision

Statutory period
95 days

Additional information

Documents
12

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

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Source: Cheshire East

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