Elm Farm Nursery Butchers Lane Aughton Ormskirk Lancashire L39 6SY
Approved on 1 September 2026
Council decision: PROPOSED LDP Permitted/Not Permi (SPLIT)Delegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed) - Single storey extension to side, loft conversion including roof dormer extension and porch canopy to front.
- Received
- 16 June 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Rural South Ward
- Agent
- Matt Wood : Architect Ltd
- ReceivedReceived16 Jun
- ValidatedValidated16 Jun
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided1 Sep
Decided in 77 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application for a loft conversion at Elm Farm Nursery Butchers Lane Aughton Ormskirk Lancashire L39 6SY. West Lancashire has handled 316 applications of this type. This one was decided in 77 days, 3 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 115 applications across Rural South Ward. We hold 507 applications in total for the L39 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
- L39 6SY
- Application type
- Lawful Development Cert. (proposed)
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Aughton
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 16 June 2026
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- Matt Wood : Architect Ltd
- Architect profile
- MATT WOOD ARCHITECT LIMITED
- Agent address
- 16 Spinney Close Ormskirk L39 4ST
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Liam Murray
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14977959
- Documents
- 9
Site constraints
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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