Midstream West Lancs Ltd Dowding House 2 Penrose Place Skelmersdale Lancashire WN8 9PR
Approved on 17 December 2025
Council decision: Planning Permission GrantedDelegated (officer decision)2 conditions
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Proposal
Proposed new storage building at Midstream Garden Centre, Skelmersdale
- Received
- 22 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Up Holland Ward
- Agent
- Peter Dickinson Architects
- ReceivedReceived22 Oct
- ValidatedValidated29 Oct
- Consult.Consultation11 Dec
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided17 Dec
Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Midstream West Lancs Ltd Dowding House 2 Penrose Place Skelmersdale Lancashire WN8 9PR. West Lancashire has handled 1,159 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 67 applications across Up Holland 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 9PR
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Up Holland
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 29 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 11 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 20 November 2025
- Consultation end
- 11 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 5 November 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 28 November 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Peter Dickinson Architects
- Architect profile
- PETER DICKINSON ARCHITECTS LIMITED
- Agent address
- 169 Appley Lane North APPLEY BRIDGE WN6 9DX
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14419092
- Documents
- 18
Site constraints
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.
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Source: West Lancashire
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