Boundary House Farm Holmeswood Road Rufford Ormskirk Lancashire L40 1UA
Approved on 5 March 2026
Council decision: Prior Notif Agric and Demolition PDPrior Notification 28 days
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Proposal
Consideration of Details for Prior Approval - Proposed portal steel frame storage building to match exisiting with opensided but roofed link between the two.
- Received
- 2 December 2025
- Decision level
- Prior Notification 28 days
- Ward
- Burscough Bridge & Rufford Ward
- ReceivedReceived2 Dec
- ValidatedValidated13 Jan
- Consult.Consultation29 Dec
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided5 Mar
Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at Boundary House Farm Holmeswood Road Rufford Ormskirk Lancashire L40 1UA. West Lancashire has handled 316 applications of this type. This one was decided in 93 days, 5 weeks longer 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 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 1UA
- Application type
- Prior Notification - Agriculture
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Rufford
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 13 January 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 29 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 8 December 2025
- Consultation end
- 29 December 2025
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent address
- 2 Marsh Cottages Marsh Lane Ormskirk L40 8HU
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Kieran Payne
Additional information
- Documents
- 15
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- 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.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: West Lancashire
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