diff --git a/src/backends/cl/test/ClImportTensorHandleTests.cpp b/src/backends/cl/test/ClImportTensorHandleTests.cpp
index 1617654..27cd136 100644
--- a/src/backends/cl/test/ClImportTensorHandleTests.cpp
+++ b/src/backends/cl/test/ClImportTensorHandleTests.cpp
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@
     TensorInfo info({ 1, 24, 16, 3 }, DataType::Float32);
 
     // create TensorHandle for memory import
-    auto handle = handleFactory.CreateTensorHandle(info);
+    auto handle = handleFactory.CreateTensorHandle(info, DataLayout::NHWC);
 
     // Get CLtensor
     arm_compute::CLTensor& tensor = PolymorphicDowncast<ClImportTensorHandle*>(handle.get())->GetTensor();
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@
     TensorInfo info({ 1, 1, 1, 1 }, DataType::Float32);
 
     // create TensorHandle (Memory Managed status is irrelevant)
-    auto handle = handleFactory.CreateTensorHandle(info);
+    auto handle = handleFactory.CreateTensorHandle(info, DataLayout::NHWC);
     // Get CLtensor
     arm_compute::CLTensor& tensor = PolymorphicDowncast<ClImportTensorHandle*>(handle.get())->GetTensor();
 
diff --git a/src/backends/cl/workloads/ClConvolution2dWorkload.hpp b/src/backends/cl/workloads/ClConvolution2dWorkload.hpp
index e4177e4..bba92d2 100644
--- a/src/backends/cl/workloads/ClConvolution2dWorkload.hpp
+++ b/src/backends/cl/workloads/ClConvolution2dWorkload.hpp
@@ -40,7 +40,19 @@
 
     arm_compute::ConvolutionMethod GetConvolutionMethod() const;
 
-    bool SupportsTensorHandleReplacement() const override { return true;};
+    bool SupportsTensorHandleReplacement() const override
+    {
+        // NCHW DataLayout on ACL still uses paddding for alignment on the Conv2d workload so importing is unreliable.
+        if (m_Data.m_Parameters.m_DataLayout == DataLayout::NCHW)
+        {
+            return false;
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            return true;
+        }
+    }
+
 
 protected:
     void Reconfigure() override;