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209 Eskdale Tanhouse Skelmersdale Lancashire WN8 6ED

2025/0921/LDPLawful Development Cert. (proposed)Refused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 10 December 2025

Council decision: Cert of Lawful (PROPOSED) Not PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawfuness for the proposed change of use of 209 Eskdale, Skelmersdale from a dwelling house Class C3 to a children's home falling within Class C2 for occupation by no more than two children.

Received
29 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre Ward
Agent
NJSR Chartered Architects LLP
  1. Received29 Oct
  2. Validated29 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided10 Dec

Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 209 Eskdale Tanhouse Skelmersdale Lancashire WN8 6ED. West Lancashire has handled 316 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 2 weeks quicker 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 17 applications across Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre Ward. We hold 347 applications in total for the WN8 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
WN8 6ED
Application type
Lawful Development Cert. (proposed)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
NJSR Chartered Architects LLP
Agent address
57-59 Hoghton Street Southport PR9 0PG United Kingdom

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14442391
Documents
6

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.

Source: West Lancashire

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