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Lancaster City Council Town Hall Dalton Square Lancaster Lancashire LA1 1PJ

26/00163/ADVApproved

Approved on 23 June 2026

Council decision: Application Permitted

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Advertisement application for the display of 2 external metal signs and 2 external display panels

Received
11 February 2026
  1. Received11 Feb
  2. Validated26 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided23 Jun

Decided in 117 days

About this application

This is a planning application for signage at Lancaster City Council Town Hall Dalton Square Lancaster Lancashire LA1 1PJ. Lancaster has handled 3,224 applications of this type. This one was decided in 117 days, 10 weeks longer than Lancaster's typical decision time. The site is in the Lancaster conservation area, with 11 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 457 applications in total for the LA1 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
LA1 1PJ

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 February 2026

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Lancaster
  • Listed building: Grade II*: Town HallOn this site · +1 more
  • 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.

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.

Source: Lancaster

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