Land At Yew Tree Farm Burscough
Proposal
Screening Opinion - Residential development up to 330 homes.
- Received
- 20 March 2025
- Decided
- 20 May 2025 · Development IS EIA development
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Burscough Town Ward
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- ReceivedReceived20 Mar
- ValidatedValidated20 Mar
- Consult.Consultation20 May
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided20 May
Decided in 61 days (council typically 56)
This is an outline application at Land At Yew Tree Farm Burscough. West Lancashire has handled 316 applications of this type and approves 74% of them, typically deciding them in 53 days. This one was decided in 61 days, 8 days longer than West Lancashire's median. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 33 applications across Burscough Town Ward.
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1 other application at this property, newest first.
Planning constraints
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- 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, 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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