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Smithfield Farm Twiston Lane Downham Lancashire BB7 4DF

3/2008/0157Applications for full consentApproved
Full

Approved on 16 April 2008

Council decision: APPROVED WITH CONDITIONS

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

Proposal

Change of use to wood-chipping and wood pellet business.

Received
22 February 2008
Ward
CHATBURN
  1. Received22 Feb
  2. Validated29 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided16 Apr

Decided in 47 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Smithfield Farm Twiston Lane Downham Lancashire BB7 4DF. Ribble Valley has handled 857 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days. There have been 3 other applications at this address. We hold 1,415 applications in total for the BB7 postcode area.

79% of full applications at Ribble Valley Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BB7 4DF
Application type
Applications for full consent
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Downham

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 February 2008
Committee meeting
16 April 2008

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Chartered Building Surveyors Waters Farm Austwick via Lancaster LA2 8AE LA2 8AE

Additional information

Documents
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • National Landscape (AONB): Forest Of Bowland
  • 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 (21)

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, 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: Ribble Valley

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