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Mewith Head Mewith High Bentham Lancaster LA2 7AP

08/2003/2928Prior NotificationApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 24 March 2003

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Agricultural building

Received
21 February 2003
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Craven
Ward
Bentham
  1. Received21 Feb
  2. Validated24 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target24 Mar
  5. Decided24 Mar

Decided in 28 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Mewith Head Mewith High Bentham Lancaster LA2 7AP. Craven has handled 504 applications of this type. This one was decided in 31 days, 4 weeks quicker than Craven's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,346 applications in total for the LA2 postcode area.

78% of outline applications at Craven were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
LA2 7AP
Application type
Prior Notification
Scale / size
Small
District
NCA

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 February 2003
Target decision date
24 March 2003

Applicant and agent

Agent address
12 St Paul's Drive Brookhouse Lancaster LA2 9PG

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • National Landscape (AONB): Forest Of Bowland
  • 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, 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, 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.

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