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45 Gorse Bank Road Hale Barns Altrincham WA15 0BB

118065/CPE/25Certificate Existing Lawful UseApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 16 March 2026

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Application for Certificate of Existing Lawful Development for an existing detached single storey annex located within the residential curtilage of the main dwellinghouse

Received
29 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Hale Barns & Timperley South
  1. Received29 Dec
  2. Validated19 Jan
  3. Consult.9 Feb
  4. Target16 Mar
  5. Decided16 Mar

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 45 Gorse Bank Road Hale Barns Altrincham WA15 0BB. Trafford has handled 208 applications of this type. This one was decided in 77 days, 3 weeks longer than Trafford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 126 applications across Hale Barns & Timperley South. We hold 1,465 applications in total for the WA15 postcode area.

88% of amendment applications at Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
WA15 0BB
Application type
Certificate Existing Lawful Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 January 2026
Consultation expiry
9 February 2026
Consultation start
19 January 2026
Consultation end
9 February 2026
Neighbour consultation start
19 January 2026
Neighbour consultation end
9 February 2026
Last date for comments
9 February 2026
Target decision date
16 March 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14591637
Documents
8
Constraints
8

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)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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: Trafford

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