diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d7100ff9953ea..b3b0f9814c8dd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -451,6 +451,9 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 - Remove `epoch` from `trainer.logged_metrics` ([#9904](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/9904))
 
 
+- Removed `should_rank_save_checkpoint` property from Trainer ([#9433](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/9433))
+
+
 ### Fixed
 
 
diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/callbacks/model_checkpoint.py b/pytorch_lightning/callbacks/model_checkpoint.py
index 82c6273732664..ec57147764914 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/callbacks/model_checkpoint.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/callbacks/model_checkpoint.py
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ def __resolve_ckpt_dir(self, trainer: "pl.Trainer") -> None:
 
         self.dirpath = ckpt_path
 
-        if not trainer.fast_dev_run and trainer.should_rank_save_checkpoint:
+        if not trainer.fast_dev_run and trainer.training_type_plugin.should_rank_save_checkpoint:
             self._fs.makedirs(self.dirpath, exist_ok=True)
 
     def __warn_if_dir_not_empty(self, dirpath: _PATH) -> None:
diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/trainer/trainer.py b/pytorch_lightning/trainer/trainer.py
index e37df73a4b98f..41f0100c0814c 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/trainer/trainer.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/trainer/trainer.py
@@ -1507,10 +1507,6 @@ def world_size(self) -> int:
         # some training types define a world size
         return getattr(self.accelerator.training_type_plugin, "world_size", 1)
 
-    @property
-    def should_rank_save_checkpoint(self) -> bool:
-        return self.accelerator.training_type_plugin.should_rank_save_checkpoint
-
     @property
     def _distrib_type(self) -> DistributedType:
         return self.accelerator_connector._distrib_type