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Woodland Works 542 Southport Road Scarisbrick Ormskirk Lancashire L40 9RG

2025/0770/FULFull Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 11 March 2026

Council decision: Planning Permission GrantedDelegated (officer decision)16 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Full application for the demolition of existing commercial buildings and erection of a coffee shop with drive-thru takeaway (use class E(B)) / Sui Generis)

Received
4 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Rural West Ward
Agent
Wignalls Chartered Surveyors
  1. Received4 Sep
  2. Validated29 Sep
  3. Consult.13 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided11 Mar

Decided in 163 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Woodland Works 542 Southport Road Scarisbrick Ormskirk Lancashire L40 9RG. West Lancashire has handled 1,159 applications of this type. This one was decided in 188 days, 19 weeks longer 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 122 applications across Rural West Ward. We hold 1,221 applications in total for the L40 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
L40 9RG
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Scarisbrick

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 September 2025
Consultation expiry
13 January 2026
Consultation start
23 December 2025
Consultation end
13 January 2026
Neighbour consultation start
1 October 2025
Neighbour consultation end
24 October 2025

Applicant and agent

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

Planning decision

Case officer
Eoin Burns

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14303603
Documents
47

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: West LancashirePart of 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.

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    29 Jul

    Approval of details reserved by condition no's 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 12 & 13 of planning permission 2025/0770/FUL

    PendingDischarge of conditions2026/0642/CON
  2. 2025
    4 Sep

    Full application for the demolition of existing commercial buildings and erection of a coffee shop with…

    This applicationApprovedFull2025/0770/FUL

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