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Burscough Building Supplies Ltd 2 Tollgate Crescent Burscough Industrial Estate Burscough Ormskirk Lancashire L40 8LT

2008/0367/COUChange of UseApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 28 May 2008

Council decision: Planning Permission GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Retention of use of existing hardstanding as open aggregate storage area and installation of open storage racking to existing yard areas. Retention of 2.4m high palisade fencing and erection of 2.4m high paladin fencing.

Received
9 April 2008
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Burscough West
  1. Received9 Apr
  2. Validated1 May
  3. Consult.20 May
  4. Target
  5. Decided28 May

Decided in 27 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Burscough Building Supplies Ltd 2 Tollgate Crescent Burscough Industrial Estate Burscough Ormskirk Lancashire L40 8LT. West Lancashire has handled 149 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 7 days quicker than West Lancashire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,221 applications in total for the L40 postcode area.

69% of amendment applications at West Lancashire Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
L40 8LT
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Burscough

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 May 2008
Consultation expiry
20 May 2008
Consultation start
29 April 2008
Consultation end
20 May 2008
Neighbour consultation start
29 April 2008
Neighbour consultation end
20 May 2008

Applicant and agent

Agent address
15 Regent Road Chorley Lancashire PR7 2DH

Additional information

Documents
10

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: conservation areas, Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage 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: West Lancashire

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