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Bentham Auction Mart Main Street High Bentham Lancaster North Yorkshire LA2 7HF

CRA08/2011/11743Full ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 25 July 2011

Council decision: Approve

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

Proposal

Soil strip existing grazing paddock (leaving metre buffer zone ro preserve the residential emenities of neighbouring property Braemar). Re surface with hardcore material (gritstone road surfacing mm down to dust) As per adjoining parking area. Incorporate use of existing surface water drainage system.

Received
14 June 2011
Public comments
5
Council
Craven
Ward
Bentham
  1. Received14 Jun
  2. Validated14 Jun
  3. Consult.14 Jul
  4. Target9 Aug
  5. Decided25 Jul

Decided in 41 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Bentham Auction Mart Main Street High Bentham Lancaster North Yorkshire LA2 7HF. Craven has handled 2,886 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 2 weeks quicker than Craven's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. 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 7HF
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
District
NCA

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 June 2011
Consultation expiry
22 July 2011
Consultation start
23 June 2011
Consultation end
14 July 2011
Target decision date
9 August 2011
Permission expires
25 July 2014

Applicant and agent

Agent address
ROYAL OAK CHAMBERS MAIN STREET BENTHAM ' ' LANCASTER LA2 7HF

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
1 July 2011
Site notice end
22 July 2011

Additional information

Documents
0

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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 (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

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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