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24 Lord Street Burscough Ormskirk Lancashire L40 4BZ

2026/0232/LDPLawful Development Cert. (proposed)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 21 September 2026

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

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed) - Change of use from C3 Dwelling to a C2 Children's Home for the care of one child.

Received
23 March 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Burscough Bridge & Rufford Ward
Agent
Dimension Architecture
  1. Received23 Mar
  2. Validated13 Apr
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided21 Sep

Decided in 161 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 24 Lord Street Burscough Ormskirk Lancashire L40 4BZ. West Lancashire has handled 316 applications of this type. This one was decided in 182 days, 18 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 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 4BZ
Application type
Lawful Development Cert. (proposed)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Burscough Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
Dimension Architecture
Architect profile
DIMENSION ARCHITECTURE LTD
Agent address
Pollard Yard Manchester M40 7QX United Kingdom

Planning decision

Case officer
Liam Murray

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14803626
Documents
10

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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