Unit A 51 Glebe Road Skelmersdale Lancashire WN8 9JP
Approved on 18 March 2026
Council decision: Planning Permission GrantedDelegated (officer decision)4 conditions
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Proposal
Erection of an uninsulated storage unit
- Received
- 29 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Skelmersdale South Ward
- ReceivedReceived29 Oct
- ValidatedValidated13 Nov
- Consult.Consultation7 Dec
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided18 Mar
Decided in 125 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Unit A 51 Glebe Road Skelmersdale Lancashire WN8 9JP. West Lancashire has handled 1,159 applications of this type. This one was decided in 140 days, 12 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 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 9JP
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 13 November 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 7 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 14 November 2025
- Consultation end
- 7 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 14 November 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 7 December 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 11 Ploughmans Close Southport PR9 8QZ
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14446191
- Documents
- 14
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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