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Land To Rear 137 Station Road Hesketh Bank Preston Lancashire PR4 6SR

2025/0778/PIPPermission in PrincipleRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 10 December 2025

Council decision: Permission in Principle RefusedDelegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

Proposal

Application for Permission in principle - up to 4 dwellings.

Received
8 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
North Meols & Hesketh Bank Ward
  1. Received8 Sep
  2. Validated8 Sep
  3. Consult.2 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided10 Dec

Decided in 93 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land To Rear 137 Station Road Hesketh Bank Preston Lancashire PR4 6SR. West Lancashire has handled 316 applications of this type. This one was decided in 93 days, 5 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 42 applications across North Meols & Hesketh Bank Ward. We hold 2,076 applications in total for the PR4 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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Why it was refused

  1. The proposed development fails to demonstrate that up to four dwellings can be accommodated on the site with adequate private garden/outdoor space and a satisfactory standard of residential amenity. The submission does not provide sufficient evidence that the development would achieve an acceptable layout or meet the requirements of the Council’s Design Guide SPD. • The proposal is therefore contrary to Policies GN3 (Criteria for Sustainable Development) and RS1 (Residential Development) of the West Lancashire Local Plan 2012–2027 Development Plan Document. • It is also contrary to the Design Guide Supplementary Planning Document and the relevant provisions of the National Planning Policy Framework, particularly Chapter 12: Achieving Well-Designed Places.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
PR4 6SR
Application type
Permission in Principle
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hesketh-with-Becconsall

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 September 2025
Consultation expiry
4 October 2025
Consultation start
11 September 2025
Consultation end
2 October 2025
Neighbour consultation start
11 September 2025
Neighbour consultation end
4 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent address
Oakdene Grange Lane Hutton Preston PR4 5JH

Planning decision

Case officer
Eoin Burns

Appeal history

6007730
Allowed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 24 September 2026Dev Type: Minor DwellingsReason: refused
Green Belt

Additional information

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.

  • 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 (21)

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, 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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