The Auction Mart 3 Main Street High Bentham Lancaster LA2 7HF
Approved on 17 December 2024
Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Construction of open-sided building for sheep pens with stepped floor (part retrospective)
- Received
- 1 October 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 6
- Council
- Craven
- Ward
- Bentham & Ingleton
- ReceivedReceived1 Oct
- ValidatedValidated1 Oct
- Consult.Consultation4 Dec
- TargetTarget Date24 Dec
- DecidedDecided17 Dec
Decided in 77 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at The Auction Mart 3 Main Street High Bentham Lancaster LA2 7HF. Craven has handled 2,886 applications of this type. This one was decided in 77 days, 3 weeks longer than Craven's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. 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 7HF
- Application type
- Full Application Major
- Scale / size
- Large
- Parish
- Bentham
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 1 October 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 12 December 2024
- Consultation start
- 13 November 2024
- Consultation end
- 4 December 2024
- Neighbour consultation start
- 8 October 2024
- Neighbour consultation end
- 29 October 2024
- Last date for comments
- 12 December 2024
- Target decision date
- 24 December 2024
- Permission expires
- 17 December 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Rural Futures 1 Low Park Wood Cottages Sedgwick Kendal LA8 0JZ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 84 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 21 November 2024
- Advertisement expiry
- 12 December 2024
- Site notice start
- 14 November 2024
- Site notice end
- 5 December 2024
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13314251
- Documents
- 25
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Brownfield land register: AuctionMartandlandsouthofMountPleasantRegister site at or near this address
- 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 (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.
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Planning history at this site
3 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202530 Jan
Application to discharge condition no. 3 (Sustainable Urban Drainage System) on ref: ZA24/26304/FULMAJ
ApprovedDischarge of conditionsCRAZA25/26691/CND - 202212 May
To construct a steel frame building to cover an existing manure store and wagon wash area. To install an…
ApprovedFull ApplicationCRA2022/23914/FUL - 202117 Mar
Extension of culverted stream and filling ground level to form an extension to the existing car park…
ApprovedFull ApplicationCRA2021/22492/FUL
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