West Lancashire Light Railway Station Road Hesketh Bank Preston Lancashire PR4 6SP
Proposal
Lawful Development Certificate for the Existing Use of West Lancashire Light Railway operations within its curtilage.
- Received
- 28 October 2024
- Decided
- 5 March 2025 · Withdrawn
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Tarleton Village Ward
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- ReceivedSubmitted28 Oct
- ValidatedValidated28 Oct
- Consult.Consultation21 Nov
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided5 Mar
Decided in 128 days (council typically 56)
This is an application to amend a permission at West Lancashire Light Railway Station Road Hesketh Bank Preston Lancashire PR4 6SP. West Lancashire has handled 149 applications of this type and approves 75% of them, typically deciding them in 53 days. This one was decided in 128 days, 11 weeks longer than West Lancashire's median. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 85 applications across Tarleton Village Ward. We hold 1,901 applications in total for the PR4 postcode area.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Planning constraints
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- Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
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.
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