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Search the Public Notice PortalPLANS to revert a car sales forecourt on the A556 into a petrol station have been scuppered.
MTS Fuel Ltd submitted a certificate of lawful development application to Cheshire East Council to change the use of The Car Port garage at Plumley Service Station.
Built around 1960, the site operated as a petrol station during the 20th century, before it became a hand car wash and latterly a car sales forecourt.
The proposal from MTS Fuel Ltd would return the site to a petrol station with an automatic car wash, and fit out a new shop in the existing sales building.
But Cheshire East has refused to certify the use as lawful and as such MTS Fuel Ltd will now have to submit a full planning application to bring its proposal to fruition.
According to the application form, MTS Fuel Ltd believed the use was lawful, saying: "The site previously operated as a petrol filling station and car valeting.
"From its very nature and appearance this is clearly evident, with existing vehicle entrance and exit from the highway network.
"It is currently vacant and site connects well with a main highway route and would serve local amenity and provide valuable employment."
Other works being carried out at the site as part of the proposal include cleaning out and preparing existing underground fuel tanks, installing new fuel pumps to existing pump islands, and replacing the fuel suction lines between the tanks and islands.
In its decision notice, Cheshire East said: "The change of use from car sales to a petrol filling station is a change between two sui generis uses and is not permitted under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015, and therefore requires full planning permission.
"Insufficient information has been provided to establish the lawfulness of other elements of the proposal including the reinstatement of fuel pumps and pipework, drainage arrangements and internal alterations."
MTS Fuel Ltd has six months to appeal the council's certificate of lawful development decision.
For more details, search reference 25/3519/CLPUD on the council's online planning portal.
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