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The Willows Brook Lane Little Hoole Preston Lancashire PR4 5JB

07/2025/00965/PIPPermission in PrincipleApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 14 January 2026

Council decision: ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Permission in principle for the erection of up to 1no. dwelling

Received
10 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Hoole
Agent
Llewellin Architectural Design
  1. Received10 Dec
  2. Validated12 Dec
  3. Consult.3 Jan
  4. Target16 Jan
  5. Decided14 Jan

Decided in 33 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at The Willows Brook Lane Little Hoole Preston Lancashire PR4 5JB. South Ribble has handled 496 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 days, 2 weeks quicker than South Ribble's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application 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
Permission in Principle
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Little Hoole Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 December 2025
Consultation expiry
3 January 2026
Consultation start
12 December 2025
Consultation end
3 January 2026
Neighbour consultation start
12 December 2025
Neighbour consultation end
26 December 2025
Last date for comments
3 January 2026
Target decision date
16 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
Llewellin Architectural Design
Agent address
Ashdale Crescent Penwortham PR1 9ZG

Planning decision

Case officer
Ms Rachel Clitheroe
Statutory period
35 days

Additional information

Documents
7
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    2 Mar

    Proposed boundary fence and stone driveway

    ApprovedHouseholder07/2026/00159/HOH

Source: South Ribble

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