School House Whitebeck Lane Priest Hutton Carnforth Lancashire LA6 1JL

26/00431/PLDCProposed Lawful Development CertificateApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 17 June 2026

Council decision: Lawful Development Certificate GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Proposed lawful development certificate for the amalgamation of two dwellinghouses (School House and Old Village School) into a single dwellinghouse

Received: 27 April 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Lancaster City Council
Ward: Warton Ward

ReceivedReceived27 Apr
ValidatedValidated28 Apr
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date18 Jun
DecidedDecided17 Jun

Decided in 50 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a new dwelling at School House Whitebeck Lane Priest Hutton Carnforth Lancashire LA6 1JL. Lancaster has handled 439 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days. The site is in the Priest Hutton conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 17 applications across Warton Ward. We hold 2,140 applications in total for the LA6 postcode area.

81% of outline 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: LA6 1JL
Application type: Proposed Lawful Development Certificate
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Priest Hutton

Planning application dates

Date validated: 28 April 2026
Target decision date: 18 June 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period: 51 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-14886819
Comments: 0
Documents: 5
Constraints: 1

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Conservation area: Priest Hutton
Listed building: Grade II: K6 Telephone KioskOn or next to this site
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.

Source: Lancaster

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