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Highfield Cottage, 700 Whittingham Lane, Broughton, Preston, PR3 2JJ

06/2025/0043Full applicationApproved
Full

Approved on 1 May 2025

Council decision: Approval with conditions

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Erection of 2no. self-build dwellings following the demolition of a maintenance building and a workshop building

Submitted
21 February 2025
Ward
Preston Rural East
  1. Received21 Feb
  2. Validated21 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided1 May

Decided in 69 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Highfield Cottage, 700 Whittingham Lane, Broughton, Preston, PR3 2JJ. Preston has handled 1,524 applications of this type. This one was decided in 69 days, 3 weeks longer than Preston's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 49 applications across Preston Rural East. We hold 2,017 applications in total for the PR3 postcode area.

97% of full 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 2JJ
Application type
Full application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Whittingham

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 February 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
PWA Planning, 2 Lockside Office Park, Lockside Road, Preston, PR2 2YS

Additional information

Documents
31

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    30 Sep

    Amendment to planning permission 06/2025/0043

    ApprovedNon-material amendmentAmendment06/2025/1030
  2. 2025
    21 Feb

    Erection of 2no. self-build dwellings following the demolition of a maintenance building and a workshop…

    This applicationApproval with conditionsFull06/2025/0043

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