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55 Sandown Road, Crewe, Cheshire East, CW1 3TF

24/4980/CLPUDCertificate of Lawful Use / Development - ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved

Council decision: Positive Certificate

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

Proposal

Certificate of lawful proposed use of property as a residential care home for up to 3 children aged 6 to 17 (Class C2) (no material difference with lawful use as Class C3 dwelling)

Received
10 December 2024
Ward
Crewe North
  1. Received10 Dec
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.25 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided

About this application

This is an outline application at 55 Sandown Road, Crewe, Cheshire East, CW1 3TF. Cheshire East has handled 1,224 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 10 December 2024 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 3 applications across Crewe North. We hold 267 applications in total for the CW1 postcode area.

79% of outline 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
CW1 3TF
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use / Development - Proposed
Parish
Crewe

Planning application dates

Validated
10 December 2024
Consultation expiry
25 February 2025
Consultation end
25 February 2025

Planning decision

Decision
Positive Certificate

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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Cheshire East

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