Sws Uk Ltd Hornby Road Claughton Lancaster Lancashire LA2 9LA
Approved on 26 January 2023
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use from Storage and Distribution (class B8) to General Industrial (class B2)
- Received
- 13 July 2022
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Lancaster City Council
- Ward
- Lower Lune Valley Ward
- ReceivedReceived13 Jul
- ValidatedValidated8 Dec
- Consult.Consultation30 Dec
- TargetTarget Date28 Jan
- DecidedDecided26 Jan
Decided in 49 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at Sws Uk Ltd Hornby Road Claughton Lancaster Lancashire LA2 9LA. Lancaster has handled 221 applications of this type. This one was decided in 197 days, 21 weeks longer than Lancaster's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 60 applications across Lower Lune Valley Ward. We hold 1,344 applications in total for the LA2 postcode area.
92% of amendment 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
- LA2 9LA
- Application type
- Change of Use Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Claughton
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 8 December 2022
- Consultation expiry
- 16 January 2023
- Consultation start
- 8 December 2022
- Consultation end
- 30 December 2022
- Neighbour consultation start
- 8 December 2022
- Neighbour consultation end
- 3 January 2023
- Last date for comments
- 16 January 2023
- Target decision date
- 28 January 2023
- Permission expires
- 26 January 2026
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 51 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 21 December 2022
- Site notice end
- 16 January 2023
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
- National Landscape (AONB): Forest Of Bowland
Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (22)
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, 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.
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