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Watchwood Lodge Watchwood Drive Lytham Lytham St Annes Lancashire FY8 4LD

23/0218Householder Planning ApplicationApproved
Householder

Approved on 5 June 2023

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

EXTERNAL ALTERATION OF THE DWELLING: 1) REPLACEMENT OF GARAGE DOOR TO FRONT ELEVATION WITH WINDOW AND BRICK WORK TO FACILITATE CONVERSION OF GARAGE TO HABITABLE ACCOMODATION, 2) REPLACEMENT OF WINDOW WITH DOOR TO FRONT ELEVATION, 3) REPLACEMENT OF WINDOW WITH DOOR TO EASTERN SIDE ELEVATION, 4) CHIMNEY FLUE TO EASTERN ROOF PLANE, 5) 1M FENCE JOINING SIDE OF DWELLING TO EASTERN GARDEN BOUNDARY.

Received
15 March 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Clifton
  1. Received15 Mar
  2. Validated17 Mar
  3. Consult.8 Apr
  4. Target
  5. Decided5 Jun

Decided in 80 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a garage at WATCHWOOD LODGE WATCHWOOD DRIVE LYTHAM LYTHAM ST ANNES LANCASHIRE FY8 4LD. Fylde has handled 1,082 applications of this type. This one was decided in 82 days, 4 weeks longer than Fylde's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,193 applications in total for the FY8 postcode area.

97% of full applications at Fylde Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
FY8 4LD
Application type
Householder Planning Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 March 2023
Consultation expiry
8 April 2023
Consultation end
8 April 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
DRAGONS LAIR 49 EAST BEACH LYTHAM ST ANNES FY8 5EY

Additional information

Documents
4

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)
  • Registered park and garden: Lytham HallPart of the site

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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: Fylde

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