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Formby's Farm Lord Sefton Way Great Altcar Liverpool Lancashire L37 5AA

2025/1018/LDPLawful Development Cert. (proposed)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 16 January 2026

Council decision: Cert of Lawfulness (PROPOSED) PermittedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness (proposed) use for single-storey rear and side extensions, garage, outbuilding, and driveway.

Received
28 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Rural West Ward
Agent
Eden Planning & Development Ltd
  1. Received28 Nov
  2. Validated2 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided16 Jan

Decided in 45 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a garage at Formby's Farm Lord Sefton Way Great Altcar Liverpool Lancashire L37 5AA. West Lancashire has handled 316 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 7 days 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 122 applications across Rural West Ward. We hold 816 applications in total for the L37 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
L37 5AA
Application type
Lawful Development Cert. (proposed)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Great Altcar

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
Eden Planning & Development Ltd
Agent address
2 Post Office Street Altrincham WA141QA United Kingdom

Planning decision

Case officer
Kieran Payne

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14495496
Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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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