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Preston New Road Exploration Site, Off Preston New Road, Little Plumpton

LCC/2025/0018ConditionsRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 3 December 2025

Planning committee1 reason for refusal

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Amendment of condition 1 of planning permission ref LCC/2023/0002 to allow the time limit for completion of restoration works to be extended until 30 June 2027

Received
30 June 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
FYLDE WEST
  1. Received30 Jun
  2. Validated2 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided3 Dec

Decided in 154 days (council typically 84)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Preston New Road Exploration Site, Off Preston New Road, Little Plumpton. Lancashire has handled 78 applications of this type. This one was decided in 156 days, 10 weeks longer than Lancashire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,075 applications in total for the PR4 postcode area.

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

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Why it was refused

  1. The proposed extension of time for the retention of the site in its current form would result in unnecessary and unacceptable harm to the rural character of the area. The proposed variation would conflict with the original intention and purpose of the condition, which was imposed to ensure the lifetime of the development was strictly controlled and that the land would be restored to its former condition within the approved timescale. The proposed amendment would not secure the restoration of the site at the earliest opportunity contrary to Paragraph 224 of the National Planning Policy Framework, Policy DM2 of the Joint Lancashire Minerals and Waste Local Plan and Policies GD4 and GD7 of the Fylde Local Plan.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
PR4 3PJ
Application type
Conditions
Scale / size
Small
Parish
WESTBY WITH PLUMPTONS
District
Fylde Borough Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 July 2025
Committee meeting
4 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Manchester Business Park 3000 Aviator Way Wythenshawe Manchester Greater Manchester M22 5TG

Additional information

Documents
10

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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2025
    30 Jun

    Amendment of condition 1 of planning permission ref LCC/2023/0002

    This applicationRefusedDischarge of conditionsLCC/2025/0018
  2. 2022
    22 Dec

    Variation of condition 2 of planning permission LCC/2014/0096

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)Part ofLCC/2023/0002

Source: Lancashire

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