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Ashton Memorial And Butterfly House Williamson Park Quernmore Road Lancaster Lancashire LA1 1UX

25/01140/FULApproved

Approved on 19 December 2025

Council decision: Application Permitted

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Installation of Air Source Heat Pumps and associated enclosure, removal of redundant plant, construction of new enclosure to house packaged plant and new air handling unit, installation of a new heat pump gantry enclosure and upgrades to the Building Energy Management Systems and associated development.

Received
23 October 2025
  1. Received23 Oct
  2. Validated30 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided19 Dec

Decided in 50 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Ashton Memorial And Butterfly House Williamson Park Quernmore Road Lancaster Lancashire LA1 1UX. Lancaster has handled 3,224 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days. The site is in the Williamson Park conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. We hold 457 applications in total for the LA1 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
LA1 1UX

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 October 2025

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 (20)

flood storage areas, Article 4 directions, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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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