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Spire Farm Cow Ark Road Newton BB7 3DH

37859Agricultural determinationApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 21 October 2025

Council decision: PERMISSION NOT REQUIRED

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

Proposal

Prior notification for proposed compacted stone and hardcore forestry access track 3.5m wide and 340m long under Part 6 Class E of the GDPO.

Received
24 September 2025
  1. Received24 Sep
  2. Validated30 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided21 Oct

Decided in 21 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a planning application at Spire Farm Cow Ark Road Newton BB7 3DH. Ribble Valley has handled 56 applications of this type. This one was decided in 27 days, 4 weeks quicker than Ribble Valley's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,415 applications in total for the BB7 postcode area.

83% of all 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 3DH
Application type
Agricultural determination
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 September 2025
Committee meeting
21 October 2025

Additional information

Documents
4

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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