Building Adjacent 10 Chorley Road Hilldale Lancashire WN8 7AN
Approved on 16 January 2026
Council decision: Planning Permission GrantedPlanning committee4 conditions
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Proposal
Change of use of outbuilding to a dwellinghouse.
- Received
- 27 May 2025
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Ward
- Rural North East Ward
- Agent
- PWA Planning
- ReceivedReceived27 May
- ValidatedValidated12 Jun
- Consult.Consultation29 Oct
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided16 Jan
Decided in 218 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at Building Adjacent 10 Chorley Road Hilldale Lancashire WN8 7AN. West Lancashire has handled 1,159 applications of this type. This one was decided in 234 days, 25 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 155 applications across Rural North East Ward. We hold 347 applications in total for the WN8 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
- WN8 7AN
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Hilldale
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 12 June 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 29 October 2025
- Consultation start
- 8 October 2025
- Consultation end
- 29 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 13 June 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 6 July 2025
- Committee meeting
- 15 January 2026
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- PWA Planning
- Agent address
- 2 Lockside Office Park Lockside Road Preston PR2 2YS United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Kerry Webster
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14005999
- Documents
- 15
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Green belt: West LancashireNext to 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 (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.
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Source: West Lancashire
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