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8, Bamford Road, Preston, PR3 5BY

06/2021/1633Lawful use certificateApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 11 January 2022

Council decision: Grant certificate

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness for proposed conversion of half of existing garage into a habitable room

Submitted
8 December 2021
Ward
Preston Rural East
  1. Received8 Dec
  2. Validated8 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided11 Jan

Decided in 34 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a garage at 8, Bamford Road, Preston, PR3 5BY. Preston has handled 264 applications of this type. This one was decided in 34 days, 2 weeks quicker than Preston's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 49 applications across Preston Rural East. We hold 2,018 applications in total for the PR3 postcode area.

62% of outline applications at Preston City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
PR3 5BY
Application type
Lawful use certificate
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Broughton-in-Amounderness

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 December 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Phil Walsh Architectural Services, 1 Regent Park, Preston, PR2 9WX

Additional information

Documents
14

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: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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

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© 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: Preston

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