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94 Square Lane Burscough Ormskirk Lancashire L40 7RQ

T/2025/0144/TPOWorks to Protected TreesApproved

Approved on 8 January 2026

Council decision: Grant Consent Subject to Conditions (TP)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 - Sycamore - Remove. The tree is dead, along with multiple suspected Ganoderma brackets and Honey fungus. T2 - Sycamore - Remove dead branches.

Received
17 November 2025
Ward
Burscough Town Ward
  1. Received17 Nov
  2. Validated17 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided8 Jan

Decided in 52 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 94 Square Lane Burscough Ormskirk Lancashire L40 7RQ. West Lancashire has handled 358 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 4 days quicker than West Lancashire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 33 applications across Burscough Town 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 7RQ
Application type
Works to Protected Trees
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Burscough Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Joe's tree care
Agent address
Marians drive Ormskirk L39 1LG United Kingdom

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14492301
Documents
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: West LancashirePart of the site
  • 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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