Balls Farm Brook Lane Little Hoole Preston Lancashire PR4 5JB

07/2020/00042/APDPD Agricultural buildings to other usesRefused

Outline / PiP

Refused on 9 March 2020

Council decision: Prior approval required and refusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)

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Proposal

Change of use of the subject building and curtilage from a general purpose agricultural storage building to a building used for general storage and distribution use

Received: 17 January 2020
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments: 2
Council: South Ribble Borough Council
Ward: Hoole

ReceivedReceived17 Jan
ValidatedValidated28 Jan
Consult.Consultation22 Feb
TargetTarget Date24 Mar
DecidedDecided9 Mar

Decided in 41 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Balls Farm Brook Lane Little Hoole Preston Lancashire PR4 5JB. South Ribble has handled 496 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 3 days longer than South Ribble's typical decision time. There have been 7 other applications 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 5JB
Application type: PD Agricultural buildings to other uses
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Little Hoole Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated: 28 January 2020
Consultation expiry: 5 March 2020
Consultation start: 28 January 2020
Consultation end: 22 February 2020
Neighbour consultation start: 12 February 2020
Neighbour consultation end: 5 March 2020
Last date for comments: 5 March 2020
Target decision date: 24 March 2020
Decision issued: 10 March 2020
Permission expires: 10 March 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent: Macmarshalls
Agent address: Hammil House 112-116 Chorley New Road Bolton BL1 4DH

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Publicity

Site notice start: 6 February 2020
Site notice end: 28 February 2020

Additional information

Documents: 10
Constraints: 1

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Green belt: South Ribble
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, 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.

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7 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: South Ribble

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