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Appleton Farm Sluice Lane Rufford L40 1SP

2025/0676/PNPPrior Notification - AgricultureApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 25 September 2025

Council decision: Prior Notif Agric and Demolition PDPrior Notification 28 days

Proposal

Application to determine whether Prior Approval is required - Agricultural storage building.

Received
4 August 2025
Decision level
Prior Notification 28 days
Ward
Burscough Bridge & Rufford Ward
Agent
Wignalls Chartered Surveyors
  1. Received4 Aug
  2. Validated1 Sep
  3. Consult.27 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided25 Sep

Decided in 24 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Appleton Farm Sluice Lane Rufford L40 1SP. West Lancashire has handled 316 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 4 days quicker than West Lancashire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application 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 1SP
Application type
Prior Notification - Agriculture
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Rufford

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 September 2025
Consultation expiry
27 August 2025
Consultation start
6 August 2025
Consultation end
27 August 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
Wignalls Chartered Surveyors
Agent address
311 Hesketh Lane Tarleton Preston Preston PR4 6RJ

Planning decision

Case officer
Kieran Payne

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14226619
Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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

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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