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Canal Towpath Adjacent To Car Park Nelson Street Lancaster Lancashire LA1 1PT

26/0010/TCAWorks to Trees in Cons AreaApproved

Approved on 9 February 2026

Council decision: Application PermittedTree Works Decision

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Group G6 - Crown lift to create 2.5m ground clearance; Crown thin by no more than 30% and crown reduce to balance canopies where they grow asymmetrically over the canal and tow path, severe ivy. Crown clean removing dead wood and snapped stems.

Received
8 January 2026
Decision level
Tree Works Decision
Public comments
1
Ward
Castle Ward
Agent
S&L Planning Consultants
  1. Received8 Jan
  2. Validated9 Jan
  3. Consult.26 Jan
  4. Target23 Jan
  5. Decided9 Feb

Decided in 31 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Canal Towpath Adjacent To Car Park Nelson Street Lancaster Lancashire LA1 1PT. Lancaster has handled 457 applications of this type. This one was decided in 32 days, 2 weeks quicker than Lancaster's typical decision time. The site is in the Lancaster conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

100% of trees 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 1PT
Application type
Works to Trees in Cons Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lancaster Non-Civil Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 January 2026
Consultation expiry
26 January 2026
Consultation start
12 January 2026
Consultation end
26 January 2026
Last date for comments
26 January 2026
Target decision date
23 January 2026
Permission expires
9 February 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
S&L Planning Consultants
Agent address
Rational House 32 Winckley Square Preston PR1 3JJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
14 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14609690
Documents
5
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Lancaster
  • 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, 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.

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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