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51 Gorse Bank Road Hale Barns Altrincham WA15 0BB

118100/CPL/26Certificate Proposed Lawful UseApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 23 March 2026

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Application for Certificate of Proposed Lawful Development for change of use of dwelling (C3) to a residential care home (C2) for up to 2 children age 11-17, with up to 3 no. carers during the day (including a manager) and 1no carer overnight, on a rota basis.

Received
8 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
5
Ward
Hale Barns & Timperley South
Agent
Archirama Ltd
  1. Received8 Jan
  2. Validated20 Jan
  3. Consult.11 Feb
  4. Target17 Mar
  5. Decided23 Mar

Decided in 62 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 51 Gorse Bank Road Hale Barns Altrincham WA15 0BB. Trafford has handled 494 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 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.

81% of outline 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 Proposed Lawful Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 January 2026
Consultation expiry
11 February 2026
Consultation start
21 January 2026
Consultation end
11 February 2026
Last date for comments
11 February 2026
Target decision date
17 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Archirama Ltd
Architect profile
ARCHIRAMA LTD
Agent address
3 Park Gate Avenue Withington Manchester M20 3BZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
6
Constraints
5

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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