Escowbeck Farm Quernmore Road Caton Lancaster Lancashire LA2 9NE
Approved on 20 May 2024
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Demolition of existing steel/block agricultural buildings and re development of site to provide 5 residential dwellings, including conversion and extension of existing barn and outbuilding (to form 3 dwellings) and erection of 2 new dwellings with associated access (pursuant to the variation of condition 2 on planning permission 20/00047/FUL to remove the connection to the driveway to the north)
- Received
- 16 June 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 2
- Council
- Lancaster City Council
- Ward
- Lower Lune Valley Ward
- Agent
- Smith & Love Planning Consultants
- ReceivedReceived16 Jun
- ValidatedValidated27 Jun
- Consult.Consultation4 Oct
- TargetTarget Date17 Aug
- DecidedDecided20 May
Decided in 328 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an application to vary a condition at Escowbeck Farm Quernmore Road Caton Lancaster Lancashire LA2 9NE. Lancaster has handled 398 applications of this type. This one was decided in 339 days, 41 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.
91% of conditions 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 9NE
- Application type
- Variation of a Condition Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Caton With Littledale
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 27 June 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 4 October 2023
- Consultation start
- 20 September 2023
- Consultation end
- 4 October 2023
- Neighbour consultation start
- 20 September 2023
- Neighbour consultation end
- 4 October 2023
- Last date for comments
- 4 October 2023
- Target decision date
- 17 August 2023
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Smith & Love Planning Consultants
- Agent address
- Rational House 32 Winckley Square Preston PR1 3JJ United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 51 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 19 July 2023
- Site notice end
- 9 August 2023
Appeal history
Additional information
- Documents
- 16
- Constraints
- 1
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- National Landscape (AONB): Forest Of Bowland
- 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 (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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© 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.
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