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Armstrong's Garden Centre, Warehouse King Street Bentham Lancaster LA2 7HG

CRA08/2007/7768Change of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 24 September 2007

Council decision: Approve

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Proposal

Conversion of a single, two storey, warehouse building into three, two storey, self contained office units.

Received
30 July 2007
Public comments
2
Council
Craven
Ward
Bentham
  1. Received30 Jul
  2. Validated9 Aug
  3. Consult.15 Oct
  4. Target4 Oct
  5. Decided24 Sep

Decided in 46 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Armstrong's Garden Centre, Warehouse King Street Bentham Lancaster LA2 7HG. Craven has handled 265 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in a conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,348 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 7HG
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
District
NCA

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 August 2007
Consultation expiry
15 October 2007
Consultation start
14 August 2007
Consultation end
15 October 2007
Target decision date
4 October 2007
Permission expires
24 September 2010

Applicant and agent

Agent address
26 SOUTH AVENUE MORECAMBE LA4 7BG

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
24 August 2007
Site notice end
14 September 2007

Additional information

Documents
0

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.

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