2 Launds Farm Cottage Lancaster Road Cockerham Lancaster Lancashire LA2 0DU

26/00274/ELDCExisting Lawful Development CertificateApproved

Lawful development certificate

Approved on 14 May 2026

Council decision: Lawful Development Certificate GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Existing lawful development certificate for use of property as single dwellinghouse

Received: 9 March 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Lancaster City Council
Ward: Ellel Ward

ReceivedReceived9 Mar
ValidatedValidated23 Mar
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date13 May
DecidedDecided14 May

Decided in 52 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 2 Launds Farm Cottage Lancaster Road Cockerham Lancaster Lancashire LA2 0DU. Lancaster has handled 221 applications of this type. This one was decided in 66 days, 2 weeks longer than Lancaster's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 58 applications across Ellel Ward. We hold 1,344 applications in total for the LA2 postcode area.

92% of amendment 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: LA2 0DU
Application type: Existing Lawful Development Certificate
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Cockerham

Planning application dates

Date validated: 23 March 2026
Target decision date: 13 May 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period: 51 days

Additional information

Comments: 0
Documents: 5

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (23)

flood storage areas, conservation 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.

Source: Lancaster

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