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28A Main Street High Bentham Lancaster LA2 7HL

CRAZA23/25433/CPECertificate Existing Lawful Use/DevRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 11 December 2023

Council decision: Refuse Cert. Lawful DevelopmentDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for Certificate of Lawful Development for an existing use that together with number 28 Main Street, the whole property has been in use as a single dwellinghouse (planning use Class C3) continuously for longer than four years.

Received
16 October 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Council
Craven
Ward
Bentham & Ingleton
  1. Received16 Oct
  2. Validated16 Oct
  3. Consult.23 Nov
  4. Target4 Dec
  5. Decided11 Dec

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 28A Main Street High Bentham Lancaster LA2 7HL. Craven has handled 265 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in a conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 5 applications across Bentham & Ingleton. 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 7HL
Application type
Certificate Existing Lawful Use/Dev
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Bentham

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 October 2023
Consultation expiry
23 November 2023
Last date for comments
23 November 2023
Target decision date
4 December 2023
Permission expires
11 December 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent address
1 Spennithorne Urmston M41 5BU

Planning decision

Statutory period
49 days

Publicity

Last advertised
2 November 2023
Advertisement expiry
23 November 2023

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
9
Constraints
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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.

Source: Craven

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