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Happy Chop Suey House 50 King Street Lancaster Lancashire LA1 1RE

25/01287/LBListed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 30 January 2026

Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Listed building application for creation of a new shop front, extension to rear store building, creation of external rear door, secondary glazing to windows, replacement rooflights, reorientation of external steps and internal and external alterations to reconfigure layout

Received
2 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Castle Ward
Agent
Mason Gillibrand Architects
  1. Received2 Dec
  2. Validated5 Dec
  3. Consult.31 Dec
  4. Target25 Jan
  5. Decided30 Jan

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application for an extension at Happy Chop Suey House 50 King Street Lancaster Lancashire LA1 1RE. Lancaster has handled 225 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 10 days longer than Lancaster's typical decision time. The site is in the Lancaster conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 50 applications across Castle Ward. We hold 456 applications in total for the LA1 postcode area.

90% of heritage 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
LA1 1RE
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lancaster Non-Civil Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 December 2025
Consultation expiry
13 January 2026
Consultation start
9 December 2025
Consultation end
31 December 2025
Last date for comments
13 January 2026
Target decision date
25 January 2026
Permission expires
30 January 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent
Mason Gillibrand Architects
Architect profile
MASON GILLIBRAND LIMITED
Agent address
16 Willow Mill Fell View Caton Lancaster LA2 9RA United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
51 days

Publicity

Last advertised
18 December 2025
Advertisement expiry
13 January 2026
Site notice start
18 December 2025
Site notice end
13 January 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14526504
Documents
14
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, 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.

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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