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72 Chain House Lane Whitestake Preston Lancashire PR4 4LD

07/2024/00731/CLUCertificate of Lawful Use/Dev. ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 10 December 2024

Council decision: Certificate GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawful Development for an existing use of a garage and yard for vehicle mechanics business and building stock car engines and gearboxes (Amended Site Plan)

Received
27 September 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
New Longton and Hutton East
  1. Received27 Sep
  2. Validated2 Oct
  3. Consult.30 Oct
  4. Target11 Dec
  5. Decided10 Dec

Decided in 69 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 72 Chain House Lane Whitestake Preston Lancashire PR4 4LD. South Ribble has handled 199 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 4 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 73 applications across New Longton and Hutton East. We hold 2,076 applications in total for the PR4 postcode area.

98% of amendment 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 4LD
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use/Dev. Existing
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Farington Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 October 2024
Consultation expiry
6 December 2024
Consultation start
8 October 2024
Consultation end
30 October 2024
Neighbour consultation start
21 November 2024
Neighbour consultation end
6 December 2024
Last date for comments
6 December 2024
Target decision date
11 December 2024
Permission expires
10 December 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent address
10-11 Ribbleside Place Preston PR1 3NA

Planning decision

Statutory period
70 days

Publicity

Site notice start
10 October 2024
Site notice end
1 November 2024

Additional information

Documents
8
Constraints
4

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

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: South Ribble

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