St Johns RC Primary School Chapel Lane Burscough Ormskirk Lancashire L40 7RA
Approved on 21 February 2025
Council decision: Planning Permission GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Erection of green security mesh fencing around the school perimeter, to be 2.4m in height.
- Received
- 18 December 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Burscough Town Ward
- Agent
- Cassidy & Ashton Group Ltd
- ReceivedReceived18 Dec
- ValidatedValidated20 Dec
- Consult.Consultation23 Jan
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided21 Feb
Decided in 63 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at St Johns RC Primary School Chapel Lane Burscough Ormskirk Lancashire L40 7RA. West Lancashire has handled 1,159 applications of this type. This one was decided in 65 days, 9 days longer than West Lancashire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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 7RA
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Burscough Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 20 December 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 30 January 2025
- Consultation start
- 2 January 2025
- Consultation end
- 23 January 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 2 January 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 30 January 2025
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- Cassidy & Ashton Group Ltd
- Architect profile
- CASSIDY & ASHTON GROUP LIMITED
- Agent address
- 7 East Cliff Preston PR13JE
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Daniel Fitzpatrick
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13589394
- Documents
- 8
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 (19)
flood storage areas, 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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Source: West Lancashire
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