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The View Burnhead Farm Mewith High Bentham Lancaster LA2 7AR

2017/18592/CPECertificate Existing Lawful Use/DevApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 20 February 2018

Council decision: Approve Cert. Lawful Devt

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Certificate of Lawful development for the existing use of a property as a residential dwelling (use Class C3)

Received
10 October 2017
Public comments
1
Council
Craven
Ward
Ingleton And Clapham
  1. Received10 Oct
  2. Validated10 Oct
  3. Consult.7 Nov
  4. Target28 Nov
  5. Decided20 Feb

Decided in 133 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The View Burnhead Farm Mewith High Bentham Lancaster LA2 7AR. Craven has handled 265 applications of this type. This one was decided in 133 days, 11 weeks longer 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.

100% of amendment 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 7AR
Application type
Certificate Existing Lawful Use/Dev
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Clapham-cum-Newby

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 October 2017
Consultation expiry
10 November 2017
Consultation start
17 October 2017
Consultation end
7 November 2017
Neighbour consultation start
17 October 2017
Neighbour consultation end
7 November 2017
Last date for comments
10 November 2017
Target decision date
28 November 2017
Permission expires
20 February 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
2 Lockside Office Park Lockside Road Preston PR2 2YS

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Publicity

Site notice start
20 October 2017
Site notice end
10 November 2017

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-06232600
Documents
13
Constraints
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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

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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.

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