Lancaster Railway Station Station Road Lancaster Lancashire LA1 5SJ
Approved on 31 March 2026
Council decision: Application PermittedDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Listed building application for the restoration of the 'shield' on Station Road elevation
- Received
- 6 February 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Lancaster City Council
- Ward
- Castle Ward
- ReceivedReceived6 Feb
- ValidatedValidated6 Feb
- Consult.Consultation5 Mar
- TargetTarget Date29 Mar
- DecidedDecided31 Mar
Decided in 53 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a heritage application at Lancaster Railway Station Station Road Lancaster Lancashire LA1 5SJ. Lancaster has handled 225 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 4 days longer than Lancaster's typical decision time. The site is in the Lancaster conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 2 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 5SJ
- Application type
- Listed Building Consent
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Lancaster Non-Civil Parish
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 6 February 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 5 March 2026
- Consultation start
- 9 February 2026
- Last date for comments
- 5 March 2026
- Target decision date
- 29 March 2026
- Permission expires
- 31 March 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Network Rail
- Agent address
- 1st Floor Square One 4 Travis Street Manchester M1 2NY United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 51 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 12 February 2026
- Advertisement expiry
- 5 March 2026
- Site notice start
- 12 February 2026
- Site notice end
- 5 March 2026
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14684483
- Documents
- 9
- Constraints
- 1
Site constraints
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 (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.
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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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: Lancaster
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