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Centaur House Gardiners Place Skelmersdale Lancashire WN8 9SP

2026/0118/LDCLawful Development Cert. (existing)Refused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 22 May 2026

Council decision: Cert of Lawfulness (EXISTING) REFUSEDDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate (Existing) - Use of building for B2 general industrial and B8 storage and distribution.

Received
13 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Old Skelmersdale Ward
  1. Received13 Feb
  2. Validated19 Mar
  3. Consult.14 Apr
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 May

Decided in 64 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Centaur House Gardiners Place Skelmersdale Lancashire WN8 9SP. West Lancashire has handled 149 applications of this type. This one was decided in 98 days, 6 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 13 applications across Old Skelmersdale Ward. We hold 347 applications in total for the WN8 postcode area.

69% of amendment 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 9SP
Application type
Lawful Development Cert. (existing)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Not Available

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 March 2026
Consultation expiry
14 April 2026
Consultation start
24 March 2026
Consultation end
14 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Helen Young

Additional information

Documents
9

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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