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Land North Of Station Approach Burscough Lancashire

2025/0580/PNTPrior Notification - TelecommunicationsApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 15 September 2025

Council decision: Prior Notif-Telecom- Details ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Development by Telecommunications Code System Operator - The proposal involves the installation of a 20-metre street works Valmont monopole, equipped with 2 GPS nodes at the top. The structure will support a total of 9 antennas positioned at heights of 16.32m, 18.22m, and 19.52m, along with 2 x 300mm transmission dishes at 13.62m. Additionally, 6 equipment cabinets will be installed at ground level, along with associated ancillary equipment as detailed in the accompanying drawings.

Received
30 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Burscough Bridge & Rufford Ward
Agent
DOT Surveying Ltd
  1. Received30 Jun
  2. Validated14 Jul
  3. Consult.11 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided15 Sep

Decided in 63 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a telecoms application at Land North Of Station Approach Burscough Lancashire. West Lancashire has handled 3 applications of this type. This one was decided in 77 days, 3 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 136 applications across Burscough Bridge & Rufford Ward.

86% of all 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

Application type
Prior Notification - Telecommunications
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Burscough Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 July 2025
Consultation expiry
11 August 2025
Consultation start
21 July 2025
Consultation end
11 August 2025
Neighbour consultation start
18 July 2025
Neighbour consultation end
10 August 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
DOT Surveying Ltd
Agent address
DOT Surveying Ltd 6060 Knights Court Solihull Parkway Birmingham Business Park Solihull B37 7WY

Planning decision

Case officer
Nicola Cook

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14139328
Documents
24

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Brownfield land register: Burscough AFC, Mart Lane, BursoughRegister site at or near this address
  • 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, 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 and heritage coasts.

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.

Source: West Lancashire

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