1 Top Locks Wheat Lane Lathom Ormskirk Lancashire L40 4BF
Refused on 13 February 2026
Council decision: Cert of Lawful (PROPOSED) Not PermittedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Lawful Development Certificate (Proposed) - The erection of a pergola to the rear of an existing property.
- Received
- 13 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Burscough Bridge & Rufford Ward
- Agent
- Octo Architects
- ReceivedReceived13 Oct
- ValidatedValidated13 Oct
- Consult.Consultation12 Nov
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided13 Feb
Decided in 123 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at 1 Top Locks Wheat Lane Lathom Ormskirk Lancashire L40 4BF. West Lancashire has handled 316 applications of this type. This one was decided in 123 days, 10 weeks longer than West Lancashire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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 4BF
- Application type
- Lawful Development Cert. (proposed)
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Lathom
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 13 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 12 November 2025
- Consultation start
- 22 October 2025
- Consultation end
- 12 November 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Octo Architects
- Agent address
- Quantum House 23 Roscoe Street Liverpool L1 2SX
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14403828
- Documents
- 13
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Listed building: Grade II: Leeds and Liverpool Canal Top Locks, Upper Lock (That Part in Burscough) Top Locks, Upper…On or next to this site
- 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 (19)
flood storage areas, 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.
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Source: West Lancashire
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