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North Reeves Cottage Whitburn West Lothian EH47 9AN

1012/CLU/25Certificate of Lawful Use or DevelopmentRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 6 March 2026

Council decision: Refuse Certificate of Lawfulness

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for proposed use of annex as short term let

Received
17 December 2025
Ward
Whitburn & Blackburn
  1. Received17 Dec
  2. Validated9 Jan
  3. Consult.30 Jan
  4. Target30 Jan
  5. Decided6 Mar

Decided in 56 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at North Reeves Cottage Whitburn West Lothian EH47 9AN. West Lothian has handled 286 applications of this type. This one was decided in 79 days, 2 weeks longer than West Lothian's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 49 applications across Whitburn & Blackburn. We hold 100 applications in total for the EH47 postcode area.

74% of amendment applications at West Lothian Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
EH47 9AN
Application type
Certificate of Lawful Use or Development
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Whitburn

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 January 2026
Last date for comments
30 January 2026
Target decision date
30 January 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
58 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
3
Constraints
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Source: West Lothian

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