Beech Croft Barn Mewith Lane Mewith Bentham Lancaster LA2 7AP
Approved on 28 May 2020
Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Detached double garage and workshop
- Received
- 18 March 2020
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 2
- Council
- Craven
- Ward
- Bentham
- ReceivedReceived18 Mar
- ValidatedValidated18 Mar
- Consult.Consultation15 Apr
- TargetTarget Date22 May
- DecidedDecided28 May
Decided in 71 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a garage at Beech Croft Barn Mewith Lane Mewith Bentham Lancaster LA2 7AP. Craven has handled 2,886 applications of this type. This one was decided in 71 days, 2 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.
94% of full 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
- Householder
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Bentham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 18 March 2020
- Consultation expiry
- 26 April 2020
- Consultation start
- 25 March 2020
- Consultation end
- 15 April 2020
- Neighbour consultation start
- 25 March 2020
- Neighbour consultation end
- 17 April 2020
- Last date for comments
- 26 April 2020
- Target decision date
- 22 May 2020
- Permission expires
- 28 May 2023
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 49 Robin Lane Bentham Lancaster LA2 7AG
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 65 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 3 April 2020
- Site notice end
- 26 April 2020
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-08597284
- Documents
- 10
- Constraints
- 4
Site constraints
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.
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