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Up Holland Labour Club 338 Ormskirk Road Skelmersdale Lancashire WN8 9AR

2025/0842/FULFull Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 2 April 2026

Council decision: Planning Permission GrantedDelegated (officer decision)7 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of part of former club from Community use Class F2 to Class E Commercial, Business and Service use. Demolition of side single storey lobby, construction of new extension, new mono pitch roof, formation of new shopfront, blocking up of external windows and doors, internal alterations, associated parking, landscaping works and site entrance improvements.

Received
30 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Skelmersdale South Ward
Agent
Architecture Works Ltd
  1. Received30 Sep
  2. Validated10 Oct
  3. Consult.6 Nov
  4. Target
  5. Decided2 Apr

Decided in 174 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Up Holland Labour Club 338 Ormskirk Road Skelmersdale Lancashire WN8 9AR. West Lancashire has handled 1,159 applications of this type. This one was decided in 184 days, 18 weeks longer than West Lancashire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 15 applications across Skelmersdale South 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 9AR
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 October 2025
Consultation expiry
27 February 2026
Consultation start
6 February 2026
Consultation end
6 November 2025
Neighbour consultation start
14 October 2025
Neighbour consultation end
6 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Architecture Works Ltd
Architect profile
ARCHITECTURE WORKS LTD
Agent address
The Coach House Warrington Road Chester CH2 4EA

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14360136
Documents
24

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    9 Sep

    Approval of details reserved by condition no 4 & 5 of planning permission 2025/0842/FUL

    PendingDischarge of conditions2026/0750/CON
  2. 2025
    30 Sep

    Change of use of part of former club from Community use Class F2 to Class E Commercial, Business and Service…

    This applicationApprovedFull2025/0842/FUL

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