Land To The Rear Of The Former National Westminster Bank Station Road High Bentham Lancaster LA2 7LF
Approved on 25 January 2021
Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Seek to provide information to satisfy the following reserved matters reserved in outline consent referenced 2017/18461/OUT granted 02 November 2017; access, layout, appearance of the building(s), landscaping and boundary treatments, and the scale of the development.
- Received
- 19 October 2020
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 4
- Council
- Craven
- Ward
- Bentham
- ReceivedReceived19 Oct
- ValidatedValidated19 Oct
- Consult.Consultation4 Jan
- TargetTarget Date12 Feb
- DecidedDecided25 Jan
Decided in 98 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at Land To The Rear Of The Former National Westminster Bank Station Road High Bentham Lancaster LA2 7LF. Craven has handled 504 applications of this type. This one was decided in 98 days, 6 weeks longer than Craven's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 1,346 applications in total for the LA2 postcode area.
78% of outline 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
- Approval of Reserved Matters
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Bentham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 19 October 2020
- Consultation expiry
- 4 January 2021
- Consultation start
- 21 December 2020
- Consultation end
- 4 January 2021
- Neighbour consultation start
- 21 December 2020
- Neighbour consultation end
- 4 January 2021
- Last date for comments
- 4 January 2021
- Target decision date
- 12 February 2021
- Permission expires
- 25 January 2024
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 169 Appley Lane North APPLEY BRIDGE WN6 9DX
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 116 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 6 November 2020
- Site notice end
- 27 November 2020
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-09163122
- Documents
- 22
- Constraints
- 10
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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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Planning history at this site
8 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202515 Aug
Application to approve detail reserved by condition 4 (sound insulation) of planning approval referenced…
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsCRAZA25/27259/CND - 202514 Jul
Approval of details secured by condition no 2 (Foul and Surface Water) of approved planning permission…
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsCRAZA25/27173/CND - 202523 Apr
Section 73 application to vary condition no 1 (Approved Plans) of reserved matters application 2020/22150/REM
ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)CRAZA25/26942/REMVAR - 202018 Mar
Conversion and extension of former NatWest Bank to form 2 residential properties and associated external…
ApprovedFull ApplicationCRA2020/21514/FUL - 202023 Jan
I write in reference to the above planning application (08/2016/16812
Observations madeDuty Officer EnquiryCRA2020/04767/DUTY - 20174 Sep
Outline application for construction of 2no. semi detached dwellings with all matters reserved.
ApprovedOutline ApplicationCRA2017/18461/OUT - 201610 May
Conversion and extension of former Natwest Bank to form 2 residential properties and associated external works
ApprovedFull ApplicationCRA08/2016/16812 - 20051 Jun
Addition of vertical grabrails, external wireless call bell and visually contrasting step nosings
ApprovedFull ApplicationCRA08/2005/5429
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