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The WAP Dark Lane Whittle-le-woods Chorley PR6 8AE

25/00298/CLPUDCertificate of Lawfulness (Proposed Use)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 12 May 2025

Council decision: Grant Certificate of LawfulnessDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a certificate of lawfulness for a proposed single storey rear extension

Received
26 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Chorley North East
  1. Received26 Mar
  2. Validated26 Mar
  3. Consult.23 Apr
  4. Target21 May
  5. Decided12 May

Decided in 47 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a single storey rear extension at The WAP Dark Lane Whittle-le-woods Chorley PR6 8AE. Chorley has handled 433 applications of this type. This one was decided in 47 days, 9 days quicker than Chorley's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 90 applications across Chorley North East. 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 8AE
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed Use)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Whittle-le-Woods

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 March 2025
Consultation expiry
23 April 2025
Consultation end
23 April 2025
Target decision date
21 May 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13888823
Documents
10
Constraints
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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

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© 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.

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Source: Chorley

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