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Plumley Service Station Chester Road, Plumley, Knutsford, Cheshire East, WA16 0TY

25/3519/CLPUDCertificate of Lawful Use / Development - ProposedRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused

Council decision: Negative Certificate

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

Proposal

Certificate of Lawful Development for proposed change of use from Car Sales Forecourt returning to previous use as a Petrol Filling Station and automatic car wash, retaining existing buildings, existing forecourt canopy, reinstating fuel pumps to existing islands, with new suction pipework connected to existing underground fuels tanks relined to comply with EN13160-7. Drainage will retain existing discharge system for forecourt via petrol interceptors and for car wash valeting via the 3 stage wash-down separator. Existing sales building will be fit-out with new shop layout and shelving.

Received
13 September 2025
Ward
Chelford
  1. Received13 Sep
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.12 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Plumley Service Station Chester Road, Plumley, Knutsford, Cheshire East, WA16 0TY. Cheshire East has handled 1,224 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 13 September 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in a conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 94 applications across Chelford. We hold 1,056 applications in total for the WA16 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
WA16 0TY
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use / Development - Proposed
Parish
Plumley with Toft & Bexton

Planning application dates

Validated
13 September 2025
Consultation expiry
12 October 2025
Consultation end
12 October 2025

Planning decision

Decision
Negative Certificate

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Listed building: Grade II: The Smoker InnOn or next to this site
  • Green belt: Cheshire East
  • 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 (19)

flood storage areas, 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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