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Simonswood Industrial Park, Former Haulage Yard, Stopgate Lane, Simonswood, L33 4YA

LCC/2024/0035AmendmentRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 15 January 2025

Planning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Retrospective application for change of use of land to a site for the processing of inert waste to produce recycled aggregates

Received
4 November 2024
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
WEST LANCASHIRE EAST
  1. Received4 Nov
  2. Validated14 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided15 Jan

Decided in 62 days (council typically 84)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Simonswood Industrial Park, Former Haulage Yard, Stopgate Lane, Simonswood, L33 4YA. Lancashire has handled 35 applications of this type. This one was decided in 72 days, 12 days quicker than Lancashire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 210 applications in total for the L33 postcode area.

94% of all applications at Lancashire County Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 12 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
L33 4YA
Application type
Amendment
Scale / size
Small
Parish
SIMONSWOOD
District
West Lancashire Borough Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 November 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Simonswood Industrial Park, Former Haulage Yard Stopgate Lane Simonswood Lancashire L33 4YA

Appeal history

3361616
Allowed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 15 August 2025Dev Type: Change of useReason: Refusal

Additional information

Documents
18

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)

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage 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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© 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: Lancashire

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