Ashcroft Dark Lane Ormskirk Lancashire L40 5TR

T/2024/0149/TPOWorks to Protected TreesApproved

Approved on 3 January 2025

Council decision: Grant Consent Subject to Conditions (TP)

Proposal

Please see supporting documents with a breakdown of works required.

Received: 13 November 2024
Council: West Lancashire Borough Council
Ward: Ormskirk East Ward

ReceivedReceived13 Nov
ValidatedValidated13 Nov
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided3 Jan

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Ashcroft Dark Lane Ormskirk Lancashire L40 5TR. West Lancashire has handled 358 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 5 days 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 71 applications across Ormskirk East Ward. We hold 1,221 applications in total for the L40 postcode area.

96% of trees 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 5TR
Application type: Works to Protected Trees
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 13 November 2024

Applicant and agent

Applicant: Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer: Russell Critchley

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-13560350
Documents: 3

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

Source: West Lancashire

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