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Penwortham Mills Factory Lane Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 9SN

07/2020/00380/SCOScoping OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 28 January 2021

Council decision: EAI Not requiredDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Scoping Request to determine the scope of an Environmental Impact Assessment for a residential-led mixed-use development

Received
5 May 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
9
Ward
Middleforth
  1. Received5 May
  2. Validated5 May
  3. Consult.4 Jun
  4. Target9 Jun
  5. Decided28 Jan

Decided in 268 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Penwortham Mills Factory Lane Penwortham Preston Lancashire PR1 9SN. South Ribble has handled 496 applications of this type. This one was decided in 268 days, 31 weeks longer than South Ribble's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 30 applications across Middleforth. We hold 1,750 applications in total for the PR1 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
PR1 9SN
Application type
Scoping Opinion
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Penwortham Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 May 2020
Consultation expiry
4 June 2020
Consultation start
13 May 2020
Consultation end
4 June 2020
Last date for comments
4 June 2020
Target decision date
9 June 2020
Permission expires
28 January 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
35 days

Additional information

Documents
12
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Brownfield land register: Vernon Carus Site/Penwortham Mills, Factory Lane - Phase 3Register site at or near this address
  • 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, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves and heritage coasts.

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.

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