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Bentham Playing Fields Wenning Avenue Station Road Bentham Lancaster LA2 7LF

CRA08/2009/9412Full ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 26 August 2009

Council decision: Approve

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Skate park area with flood lighting pylons.

Received
4 February 2009
Public comments
5
Council
Craven
Ward
Bentham
  1. Received4 Feb
  2. Validated13 Feb
  3. Consult.10 Apr
  4. Target10 Apr
  5. Decided26 Aug

Decided in 194 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Bentham Playing Fields Wenning Avenue Station Road Bentham Lancaster LA2 7LF. Craven has handled 2,886 applications of this type. This one was decided in 203 days, 21 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 7LF
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
District
NCA

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 February 2009
Consultation expiry
10 April 2009
Consultation start
18 February 2009
Consultation end
10 April 2009
Target decision date
10 April 2009
Committee meeting
27 July 2009
Permission expires
26 August 2012

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Ribble Court 1 Mead Way Padiham Shuttleworth Mead Business Pk Burnley ' BB12 7NG

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
27 February 2009
Site notice end
20 March 2009

Additional information

Documents
0

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site

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 (22)

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, 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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© 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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