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Land Off Selby Place Stanley Industrial Estate Skelmersdale Lancashire WN8 8EF

2025/0362/FULApproved

Approved on 9 September 2026

Council decision: Planning Permission Granted19 conditions

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Full planning application for a storage and distribution warehousing unit (B8 use) with ancillary offices, widening of existing access, car parking, service yard and electricity substation.

Received
14 April 2025
Ward
Skelmersdale North Ward
  1. Received14 Apr
  2. Validated8 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided9 Sep

Decided in 489 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Land Off Selby Place Stanley Industrial Estate Skelmersdale Lancashire WN8 8EF. West Lancashire has handled 2,971 applications of this type. This one was decided in 489 days, 62 weeks longer than West Lancashire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 19 applications across Skelmersdale North Ward. We hold 347 applications in total for the WN8 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
WN8 8EF
Parish
Unparished - Skelmersdale

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 May 2025

Planning decision

Case officer
Kate Henry

Additional information

Documents
107

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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 (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.

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    21 Sep

    Approval of details reserved by conditions 7 & 17 of planning permission 2025/0362/FUL

    PendingDischarge of conditions2026/0791/CON
  2. 2025
    8 May

    Full planning application for a storage and distribution warehousing unit (B8 use) with ancillary offices…

    This applicationApprovedApplication2025/0362/FUL

Source: West Lancashire

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