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Hobbs Cross Blythe Lane Lathom Ormskirk Lancashire L40 5UA

2025/0380/LDPLawful Development Cert. (proposed)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 30 May 2025

Council decision: Cert of Lawfulness (PROPOSED) PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed siting of a caravan within the curtilage of the dwellinghouse.

Received
22 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Burscough Bridge & Rufford Ward
  1. Received22 Apr
  2. Validated29 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided30 May

Decided in 31 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a new dwelling at Hobbs Cross Blythe Lane Lathom Ormskirk Lancashire L40 5UA. West Lancashire has handled 316 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 3 weeks quicker than West Lancashire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. 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 5UA
Application type
Lawful Development Cert. (proposed)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Lathom

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 April 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13957420
Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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

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© 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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