A separable manifold failing to have the homotopy type of a CW-complex
  We show that the Pr\"ufer surface, which is a separable non-metrizable 2-manifold, has not the homotopy type of a CW-complex. This will follow easily from J. H. C. Whitehead's result: if one has a good approximation of an arbitrary space by a CW-complex, which fails to be a homotopy equivalence, then the given space is not homotopy equivalent to a CW-complex. 
Alexandre Gabard