Gemma Smith Hair Lounge Ground Floor Unit 6 Bridge Court Little Hoole Preston Lancashire PR4 5BF
Approved on 13 January 2020
Council decision: Prior approval not requiredDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Notification of a flexible change of use from hairdresser (Class A1) to restaurant (Class A3)
- Received
- 19 November 2019
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- South Ribble Borough Council
- Ward
- Hoole
- ReceivedReceived19 Nov
- ValidatedValidated19 Nov
- Consult.Consultation18 Dec
- TargetTarget Date14 Jan
- DecidedDecided13 Jan
Decided in 55 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application for a change of use at Gemma Smith Hair Lounge Ground Floor Unit 6 Bridge Court Little Hoole Preston Lancashire PR4 5BF. South Ribble has handled 496 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 6 days longer than South Ribble's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 81 applications across Hoole. We hold 2,076 applications in total for the PR4 postcode area.
95% of outline applications at South Ribble Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- PR4 5BF
- Application type
- PD Town Centre Use
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Little Hoole Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 19 November 2019
- Consultation expiry
- 18 December 2019
- Consultation start
- 26 November 2019
- Consultation end
- 18 December 2019
- Last date for comments
- 18 December 2019
- Target decision date
- 14 January 2020
- Permission expires
- 13 January 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Moving Works
- Agent address
- 4 Bridge Court Little Hoole PR4 5BF
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 6
- Constraints
- 2
Site constraints
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.
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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.
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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Source: South Ribble
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