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Bentham Golf Course Robin Lane High Bentham Lancaster LA2 7AG

CRAZA23/25514/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 20 March 2024

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of land for the installation of ground mounted solar PV arrays.

Received
16 November 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Council
Craven
Ward
Bentham & Ingleton
  1. Received16 Nov
  2. Validated20 Dec
  3. Consult.15 Feb
  4. Target13 Mar
  5. Decided20 Mar

Decided in 91 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Bentham Golf Course Robin Lane High Bentham Lancaster LA2 7AG. Craven has handled 2,886 applications of this type. This one was decided in 91 days, 5 weeks longer than Craven's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 3 other applications 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.

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 7AG
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Bentham

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 December 2023
Consultation expiry
15 February 2024
Consultation start
25 January 2024
Consultation end
15 February 2024
Neighbour consultation start
22 December 2023
Neighbour consultation end
18 January 2024
Last date for comments
15 February 2024
Target decision date
13 March 2024
Permission expires
20 March 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent address
10 Paddock House Middle Street South Driffield YO25 6PT

Planning decision

Statutory period
84 days

Publicity

Site notice start
8 January 2024
Site notice end
29 January 2024

Additional information

Documents
20
Constraints
19

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
  • Brownfield land register: GolfClubcarparkandclubhouse,RobinLaneRegister site at or near this address

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 (21)

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 and heritage coasts.

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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Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Associated applications

  1. 2023
    20 Dec

    Change of use of land for the installation of ground mounted solar PV arrays.

    This applicationApprovedFullCRAZA23/25514/FUL
  2. 2023
    19 Dec

    Change of use of land for the siting of high quality camping pods (5 in total). Construction of road and…

    ApprovedFull ApplicationFiled alongsideCRAZA23/25516/FUL

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