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76A Railway Road Adlington Chorley PR6 9RB

20/01362/P3PAJPrior Approval Offices to DwellingsApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 10 March 2021

Council decision: Prior Approval Approved (COU)Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior approval application under Part 3, Class O of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended) for a change of use from existing office (Class B1a) to 1no. dwellinghouse (Class C3)

Received
18 December 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
6
Ward
Adlington And Anderton
  1. Received18 Dec
  2. Validated14 Jan
  3. Consult.9 Mar
  4. Target10 Mar
  5. Decided10 Mar

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 76A Railway Road Adlington Chorley PR6 9RB. Chorley has handled 433 applications of this type. This one was decided in 82 days, 4 weeks longer than Chorley's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 68 applications across Adlington And Anderton. We hold 742 applications in total for the PR6 postcode area.

77% of outline applications at Chorley Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
PR6 9RB
Application type
Prior Approval Offices to Dwellings
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Adlington

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 January 2021
Consultation expiry
9 March 2021
Consultation end
9 March 2021
Neighbour consultation end
19 February 2021
Target decision date
10 March 2021

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Documents
14
Constraints
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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: Chorley

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