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Hillam House Farm Hillam Lane Cockerham Lancaster Lancashire LA2 0DY

23/00728/PAAPrior Approval - AgricultureRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 16 August 2023

Council decision: Prior Approval RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior approval for the change of use of an agricultural building into 2 dwellings (C3)

Received
23 June 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Ellel Ward
  1. Received23 Jun
  2. Validated23 Jun
  3. Consult.2 Aug
  4. Target10 Aug
  5. Decided16 Aug

Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Hillam House Farm Hillam Lane Cockerham Lancaster Lancashire LA2 0DY. Lancaster has handled 439 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 5 days longer than Lancaster's typical decision time. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 58 applications across Ellel Ward. We hold 1,344 applications in total for the LA2 postcode area.

81% of outline 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 0DY
Application type
Prior Approval - Agriculture
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Cockerham

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 June 2023
Consultation expiry
2 August 2023
Consultation start
19 July 2023
Consultation end
2 August 2023
Last date for comments
2 August 2023
Target decision date
10 August 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
29 Castle Hill Lancaster LA1 1YN

Planning decision

Statutory period
48 days

Publicity

Site notice start
10 July 2023
Site notice end
31 July 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12256892
Documents
20

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site

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.

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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