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Old House Farm German Lane Charnock Richard Chorley PR7 5NE

25/00112/PIPPermission In PrincipleApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 19 March 2025

Council decision: Permission in Principle ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Permission in principle application for the conversion of existing barn and shippon into separate residence.

Received
6 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Eccleston, Heskin And Charnock Richard
  1. Received6 Feb
  2. Validated12 Feb
  3. Consult.27 Feb
  4. Target19 Mar
  5. Decided19 Mar

Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Old House Farm German Lane Charnock Richard Chorley PR7 5NE. Chorley has handled 433 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 2 weeks quicker than Chorley's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 90 applications across Eccleston, Heskin And Charnock Richard. We hold 1,614 applications in total for the PR7 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
PR7 5NE
Application type
Permission In Principle
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Charnock Richard

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 February 2025
Consultation expiry
27 February 2025
Consultation end
27 February 2025
Target decision date
19 March 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Peter E Gilkes & Company
Agent address
Peter E Gilkes And Co 44 Market Street Chorley PR7 2SE

Planning decision

Statutory period
35 days

Additional information

Documents
12
Constraints
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Green belt: Chorley
  • 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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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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