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Canal Basin Play Area Chorley Old Road Whittle-le-woods

26/00077/CLPUDCertificate of Lawfulness (Proposed Use)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 25 March 2026

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 youth shelter

Received
27 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Buckshaw And Whittle
  1. Received27 Jan
  2. Validated3 Feb
  3. Consult.25 Feb
  4. Target31 Mar
  5. Decided25 Mar

Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Canal Basin Play Area Chorley Old Road Whittle-le-woods. Chorley has handled 433 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 45 applications across Buckshaw And Whittle.

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

Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed Use)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Whittle-le-Woods

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 February 2026
Consultation expiry
25 February 2026
Consultation end
25 February 2026
Target decision date
31 March 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
Simon Lems
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14638852
Documents
10
Constraints
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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, 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

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© 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.

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