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Household Waste Recycle Centre Barn Road, Congleton, Cheshire East, CW12 1LJ

20/5658CFull PlanningApproved
Full

Approved on 23 July 2021

Council decision: Approved With Conditions

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Demolition and redevelopment of Household Waste & Recycling Centre to provide a drive-thru coffee shop, car parking, access and landscaping

Submitted
21 December 2020
Ward
Brereton Rural
  1. Received21 Dec
  2. Validated21 Dec
  3. Consult.25 Feb
  4. Target23 Jul
  5. Decided23 Jul

Decided in 214 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Household Waste Recycle Centre Barn Road, Congleton, Cheshire East, CW12 1LJ. Cheshire East has handled 8,314 applications of this type. This one was decided in 214 days, 23 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 81 applications across Brereton Rural. We hold 2,687 applications in total for the CW12 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
CW12 1LJ
Application type
Full Planning
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Congleton

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 December 2020
Consultation expiry
25 February 2021
Consultation end
25 February 2021
Target decision date
23 July 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Landmark, 1 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 4PB

Planning decision

Statutory period
214 days

Additional information

Documents
99

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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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© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© 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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