Balls Farm Brook Lane Little Hoole Preston Lancashire PR4 5JB

07/2025/00609/CLUCertificate of Lawful Use/Dev. ExistingApproved

Lawful development certificate

Approved on 17 October 2025

Council decision: Certificate GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)

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Proposal

Application for a Certificate of Lawfulness to confirm the demolition of a building shows a material start and that devleopment has begun pursuant to planning permission reference 07/2022/00797/FUL.

Received: 9 August 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: South Ribble Borough Council
Ward: Hoole
Agent: MacMarshalls Ltd

ReceivedReceived9 Aug
ValidatedValidated20 Aug
Consult.Consultation20 Sep
TargetTarget Date15 Oct
DecidedDecided17 Oct

Decided in 58 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Balls Farm Brook Lane Little Hoole Preston Lancashire PR4 5JB. South Ribble has handled 199 applications of this type. This one was decided in 69 days, 3 weeks 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.

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 5JB
Application type: Certificate of Lawful Use/Dev. Existing
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Little Hoole Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated: 20 August 2025
Consultation expiry: 24 September 2025
Consultation start: 29 August 2025
Consultation end: 20 September 2025
Neighbour consultation start: 29 August 2025
Neighbour consultation end: 20 September 2025
Last date for comments: 24 September 2025
Target decision date: 15 October 2025
Permission expires: 17 October 2028

Applicant and agent

Applicant: Private applicant
Agent: MacMarshalls Ltd
Agent address: Hamill House 112-116 Chorley New Road Bolton BL1 4DH United Kingdom

Planning decision

Case officer: Jessica Jarman
Statutory period: 56 days

Publicity

Site notice start: 2 September 2025
Site notice end: 24 September 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-14242263
Comments: 0
Documents: 5
Constraints: 2

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.

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Associated applications

2025
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13 Feb
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2022
27 Sep
Proposed demolition of two existing storage buildings and erection of a replacement building for commercial…
Approval with ConditionsFull ApplicationPart of07/2022/00797/FUL

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