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5 Blackberry Hall Crescent Heysham Morecambe Lancashire LA3 2AQ

13/00865/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 14 October 2013

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Change of use of paddock and part of the garden to a Gypsy and Traveller residential site providing two permanent pitches, one transit pitch, and two amenity blocks, one including an ancillary commercial storage area.

Received
16 August 2013
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Heysham Central
Agent
Michael Hargreaves Planning
  1. Received16 Aug
  2. Validated30 Aug
  3. Consult.28 Sep
  4. Target25 Oct
  5. Decided14 Oct

Decided in 45 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 5 Blackberry Hall Crescent Heysham Morecambe Lancashire LA3 2AQ. Lancaster has handled 428 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 10 days longer than Lancaster's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. We hold 617 applications in total for the LA3 postcode area.

85% of full applications at Lancaster City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
LA3 2AQ
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Heysham Neighbourhood Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 August 2013
Consultation expiry
7 October 2013
Consultation start
6 September 2013
Consultation end
28 September 2013
Neighbour consultation start
30 August 2013
Neighbour consultation end
20 September 2013
Last date for comments
7 October 2013
Target decision date
25 October 2013
Application expires
20 October 2013
Permission expires
14 October 2016

Applicant and agent

Agent
Michael Hargreaves Planning
Agent address
5 High Street Swaffham Prior 5 High Street Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB25 0LD United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
16 September 2013
Site notice end
7 October 2013

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-02786105
Documents
24

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)

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

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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, 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.

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