Ford House Low Bentham Road High Bentham North Yorkshire LA2 7BS

CRA08/2012/12466Change of UseApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 18 April 2012

Council decision: Approve

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

Proposal

Change of use only from children's home (residential institution) to private single dwelling.

Received: 5 March 2012
Public comments: 2
Council: Craven
Ward: Bentham

ReceivedReceived5 Mar
ValidatedValidated5 Mar
Consult.Consultation2 Apr
TargetTarget Date30 Apr
DecidedDecided18 Apr

Decided in 44 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Ford House Low Bentham Road High Bentham North Yorkshire LA2 7BS. Craven has handled 265 applications of this type. This one was decided in 44 days, 12 days quicker 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 7BS
Application type: Change of Use
Scale / size: Small
District: NCA

Planning application dates

Date validated: 5 March 2012
Consultation expiry: 6 April 2012
Consultation start: 12 March 2012
Consultation end: 2 April 2012
Target decision date: 30 April 2012
Permission expires: 18 April 2015

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Publicity

Site notice start: 16 March 2012
Site notice end: 6 April 2012

Additional information

Documents: 1

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.

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Source: Craven

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