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Land Off Shore Road Hesketh Bank PR4 6XP

2026/0194/PNPPrior Notification - AgricultureApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 22 April 2026

Council decision: PDR Prior Approval NOT requiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for Determination as to Whether Prior Approval is Required for Details - Agricultural storage building, arable crops and agricultural machinery.

Received
12 March 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
North Meols & Hesketh Bank Ward
Agent
Banks Chartered Surveyors
  1. Received12 Mar
  2. Validated26 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 Apr

Decided in 27 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land Off Shore Road Hesketh Bank PR4 6XP. West Lancashire has handled 316 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 2 weeks quicker 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 42 applications across North Meols & Hesketh Bank Ward. We hold 2,076 applications in total for the PR4 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
PR4 6XP
Application type
Prior Notification - Agriculture
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hesketh-with-Becconsall

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Banks Chartered Surveyors
Agent address
Oakdene, Grange Lane Hutton Preston PR4 5JH United Kingdom

Planning decision

Case officer
Liam Murray

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14393835
Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Green belt: West Lancashire

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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