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The Willow House 1 Halsall Farm Grove Halsall Ormskirk Lancashire L39 8AB

2026/0732/FULRefused

Refused on 12 November 2026

Council decision: Planning Permission REFUSED2 reasons for refusal

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Construction of a single-storey rear garage extension and reposition of a single-storey outbuilding incidental to the main dwelling, with associated hard and soft landscaping, that has previously been consented.

Received
3 September 2026
Ward
Rural West Ward
  1. Received3 Sep
  2. Validated17 Sep
  3. Consult.15 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided12 Nov

Decided in 56 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a garage at The Willow House 1 Halsall Farm Grove Halsall Ormskirk Lancashire L39 8AB. West Lancashire has handled 2,971 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 122 applications across Rural West Ward. We hold 507 applications in total for the L39 postcode area.

Why it was refused

  1. This planning application is for a detached outbuilding and rear extension to an existing detached garage. The Local Planning Authority do not accept the site edged red as being the lawful residential curtilage of the property as it is in conflict with previously accepted red edges on approved applications for the site.
  2. The proposed development conflicts with the NPPF and Policy GN1 in the West Lancashire Local Plan 2012-2027 DPD in that the proposal constitutes inappropriate development resulting in harm to the openness of the Green Belt. No Very Special Circumstances have been demonstrated to outweigh this harm.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
L39 8AB
Parish
Halsall

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 September 2026
Consultation end
15 October 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Liam Murray

Additional information

Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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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