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Balls Farm Brook Lane Little Hoole Preston Lancashire PR4 5JB

07/2020/00327/APDPD Agricultural buildings to other usesApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 21 May 2020

Council decision: Prior approval not requiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of agricultural building to store up to 25 classic/antique/collectable cars

Received
1 April 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Hoole
Agent
MacMarshalls Chartered Rural Surveyors & Planning Consultant
  1. Received1 Apr
  2. Validated1 Apr
  3. Consult.1 May
  4. Target27 May
  5. Decided21 May

Decided in 50 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 50 days. 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
1 April 2020
Consultation expiry
6 May 2020
Consultation start
9 April 2020
Consultation end
1 May 2020
Neighbour consultation start
9 April 2020
Neighbour consultation end
1 May 2020
Last date for comments
6 May 2020
Target decision date
27 May 2020
Permission expires
21 May 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
MacMarshalls Chartered Rural Surveyors & Planning Consultant
Agent address
McMarshalls Ltd Hamill House 112-116 Chorley New Road Bolton BL1 4DH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
14 April 2020
Site notice end
6 May 2020

Additional information

Documents
8
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.

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

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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Planning history at this site

7 other applications at this property, newest first.

  1. 2025
    9 Aug

    Application for a Certificate of Lawfulness to confirm the demolition of a building shows a material start…

    ApprovedCertificate of Lawful Use/Dev. Existing07/2025/00609/CLU
  2. 2023
    13 Feb

    Application to Discharge Condition Nos. 7 (RAM Method Statement) and 9 (Enhancement Plan) of planning…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditions07/2023/00128/DIS
  3. 2022
    27 Sep

    Proposed demolition of two existing storage buildings and erection of a replacement building for commercial…

    Approval with ConditionsFull Application07/2022/00797/FUL
  4. 2022
    23 May

    Application for a lawful development certificate for an existing change of use of land and buildings from…

    ApprovedCertificate of Lawful Use/Dev. Existing07/2022/00427/CLU
  5. 2020
    17 Jan

    Change of use of the subject building and curtilage from a general purpose agricultural storage building to a…

    RefusedPD Agricultural buildings to other uses07/2020/00042/APD
  6. 2019
    22 May

    Installation of 1x 10m wooden pole (8.2M above ground)

    ApprovedPermitted Development to Masts/Telecoms07/2019/4961/PDTEL

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