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Yew Tree Farm Liverpool Road South Burscough Lancashire L40 7RE

2015/0171/OUTOutline Planning ApplicationApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 20 March 2017

Council decision: Outline Planning GrantedPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Outline planning permission (including details of access) for the erection of up to 580 dwellings (C3); Extra Care or Care Accommodation (C2); a Local Centre (comprising up to 500m2 of A1, A2, A3, A4 and A5 floorspace; and community uses); the construction of 4.6 hectares of Employment Development (up to 13,800m2 of B1, B2 and B8 floorspace); the provision of open space and associated recreation facilities (including parkland, allotments, play areas, a linear park, cycle and pedestrian facilities); together with the provision of related infrastructure including the construction of drainage works (including sustainable urban drainage systems), roads, services and related utilities; and associated works.

Received
19 February 2015
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Burscough West
Agent
Nathaniel Lichfield & Partners
  1. Received19 Feb
  2. Validated4 Mar
  3. Consult.10 Apr
  4. Target
  5. Decided20 Mar

Decided in 747 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Yew Tree Farm Liverpool Road South Burscough Lancashire L40 7RE. West Lancashire has handled 316 applications of this type. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 6 other applications at this address. We hold 1,221 applications in total for the L40 postcode area.

76% of outline 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 7RE
Application type
Outline Planning Application
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
580
Parish
Burscough Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 March 2015
Consultation expiry
2 July 2015
Consultation start
20 March 2015
Consultation end
10 April 2015
Neighbour consultation start
6 January 2016
Neighbour consultation end
2 July 2015
Committee meeting
14 January 2016

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
Nathaniel Lichfield & Partners
Agent address
3rd Floor One St James Manchester Greater Manchester (Met County) M2 6DN

Planning decision

Case officer
Ann Veevers

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-03960720
Documents
157

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

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© 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.

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