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6 Longacre Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 5BT

07/2025/00282/FULFull ApplicationWithdrawn
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Withdrawn on 15 September 2025

Council decision: Application WithdrawnDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed Rear Dormer and Change of Use of 6 Longacre from Class C3 (Dwellinghouse) to Class C2 (Residential Institutions) to operate the property as a children's care home for up to 3 children, aged 6 to 16 with care provided 24 hours a day. There will be two staff members at any given time on a 3:2 child to staff ratio, with a Manager and Deputy present too. (AMENDED DESCRIPTION)

Received
18 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
23
Ward
Longton and Hutton West
Agent
MacMarshalls Chartered Surveyors & Planning Consultants
  1. Received18 Apr
  2. Validated18 Apr
  3. Consult.28 Aug
  4. Target28 Jul
  5. Decided15 Sep

Decided in 150 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a dormer extension at 6 Longacre Longton Preston Lancashire PR4 5BT. South Ribble has handled 2,028 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 150 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 82 applications across Longton and Hutton West. We hold 2,076 applications in total for the PR4 postcode area.

95% of full 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 5BT
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Longton Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 April 2025
Consultation expiry
11 September 2025
Consultation start
6 August 2025
Consultation end
28 August 2025
Neighbour consultation start
20 August 2025
Neighbour consultation end
11 September 2025
Last date for comments
11 September 2025
Target decision date
28 July 2025
Permission expires
15 September 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
MacMarshalls Chartered Surveyors & Planning Consultants
Agent address
Hamill House 112- 116 Chorley New Road Bolton BL14DH United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
101 days

Publicity

Site notice start
14 May 2025
Site notice end
5 June 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13924894
Documents
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

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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