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Higher Moor Head Farm Rakehouse Brow Quernmore Lancaster Lancashire LA2 0QS

23/00808/ADAgricultural DeterminationApproved

Approved on 9 August 2023

Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Agricultural determination for the construction of an agricultural access track and renewal of concrete yard

Received
14 July 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ellel Ward
Agent
Banks Chartered Surveyors
  1. Received14 Jul
  2. Validated14 Jul
  3. Consult.31 Jul
  4. Target6 Aug
  5. Decided9 Aug

Decided in 26 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a planning application at Higher Moor Head Farm Rakehouse Brow Quernmore Lancaster Lancashire LA2 0QS. Lancaster has handled 51 applications of this type. This one was decided in 26 days, 3 weeks quicker than Lancaster's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application 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.

87% of all 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 0QS
Application type
Agricultural Determination
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Over Wyresdale

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 July 2023
Consultation expiry
31 July 2023
Consultation start
17 July 2023
Consultation end
31 July 2023
Last date for comments
31 July 2023
Target decision date
6 August 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent
Banks Chartered Surveyors
Agent address
Hutton Preston PR4 5JH

Planning decision

Statutory period
23 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
7
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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.

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