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Taylors Farm Hall Lane Lathom Ormskirk Lancashire L40 5UW

2024/0369/PNPPrior Notification - AgricultureRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 24 May 2024

Council decision: Prior Notif Agriculture- Details REFUSEDPrior Notification 28 days

Proposal

Application for Determination as to Whether Prior Approval is Required for Details - Erection of Agricultural Storage Building.

Received
29 April 2024
Decision level
Prior Notification 28 days
Ward
Burscough Bridge & Rufford Ward
Agent
NJSR Chartered Architects LLP
  1. Received29 Apr
  2. Validated29 Apr
  3. Consult.30 May
  4. Target
  5. Decided24 May

Decided in 25 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Taylors Farm Hall Lane Lathom Ormskirk Lancashire L40 5UW. West Lancashire has handled 316 applications of this type. This one was decided in 25 days, 4 weeks quicker than West Lancashire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 136 applications across Burscough Bridge & Rufford Ward. 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 5UW
Application type
Prior Notification - Agriculture
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lathom

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 April 2024
Consultation expiry
30 May 2024
Consultation start
9 May 2024
Consultation end
30 May 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
NJSR Chartered Architects LLP
Agent address
NJSR Chartered Architects LLP 57-59 Hoghton Street Southport PR9 0PG

Planning decision

Case officer
Emma Bailey

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12991942
Documents
4

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: West Lancashire
  • 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.

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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