Bracken Barn Holmes Chapel Road, Somerford, Congleton, Cheshire East, CW12 4SN
Proposal
Change of Use of building from B8 (Storage and Distribution) to Class E (d) (Commercial, Business and Service) for use as an indoor sports facility (Padel Courts).
- Received
- 14 October 2025
- Council
- Cheshire East Council
- Ward
- Brereton Rural
- ReceivedSubmitted14 Oct
- ValidatedValidated
- Consult.Consultation26 Nov
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Bracken Barn Holmes Chapel Road, Somerford, Congleton, Cheshire East, CW12 4SN. Cheshire East has handled 8,325 applications of this type and approves 88% of them, typically deciding them in 56 days. It was submitted on 14 October 2025 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 72 applications across Brereton Rural. We hold 2,661 applications in total for the CW12 postcode area.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Planning constraints
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- 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 (20)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, 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.
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