Unit 8 Seafire Business Park Seafire Way Burscough Ormskirk Lancashire L40 8AH
Approved on 31 October 2023
Council decision: Planning Permission GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Erection of 1 employment building at Seafire Business Park with associated access, infrastructure, and boundary treatments.
- Received
- 29 June 2023
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Burscough Town Ward
- ReceivedReceived29 Jun
- ValidatedValidated26 Jul
- Consult.Consultation24 Aug
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided31 Oct
Decided in 97 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a new dwelling at Unit 8 Seafire Business Park Seafire Way Burscough Ormskirk Lancashire L40 8AH. West Lancashire has handled 1,159 applications of this type. This one was decided in 124 days, 10 weeks longer than West Lancashire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 33 applications across Burscough Town Ward. We hold 1,221 applications in total for the L40 postcode area.
87% of full 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 8AH
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Burscough Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 26 July 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 26 August 2023
- Consultation start
- 3 August 2023
- Consultation end
- 24 August 2023
- Neighbour consultation start
- 3 August 2023
- Neighbour consultation end
- 26 August 2023
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Lichfields
- Agent address
- Ship Canal House 98 King Street Manchester M2 4WU United Kingdom
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-12253091
- Documents
- 5
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Green belt: West LancashirePart of the site
- 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 (20)
flood storage 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
- 202319 Dec
Approval of details reserved by condition numbers 4 of planning permission 2023/0611/FUL
ApprovedDischarge of conditions2023/1155/CON - 202329 Jun
Erection of 1 employment building at Seafire Business Park with associated access, infrastructure, and…
This applicationApprovedFull2023/0611/FUL
Source: West Lancashire
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