Head Nook Quarry Garstang Road Barton PR3 5AB
Approved on 10 January 2008
Council decision: Application PermittedPlanning committee
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Proposal
Change of use to temporary showground facility to accommodate events for up to 28 days per annum, with additional time for setting up and dismantling, construction of improved and new site gated entrances, construction of tracks, provision of temporary parking areas including overspill areas
- Received
- 23 October 2007
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Public comments
- 10
- Council
- Wyre Borough Council
- ReceivedReceived23 Oct
- ValidatedValidated23 Oct
- Consult.Consultation7 Jan
- TargetTarget Date22 Jan
- DecidedDecided10 Jan
Decided in 79 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Head Nook Quarry Garstang Road Barton PR3 5AB. Wyre has handled 426 applications of this type. This one was decided in 79 days, 2 weeks longer than Wyre's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 2,018 applications in total for the PR3 postcode area.
83% of full applications at Wyre Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- PR3 5AB
- Application type
- Major Full smallscale
- Scale / size
- Large
- Parish
- Myerscough And Bilsborrow
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 23 October 2007
- Consultation expiry
- 7 January 2008
- Consultation start
- 11 January 2008
- Consultation end
- 7 January 2008
- Neighbour consultation start
- 17 December 2007
- Neighbour consultation end
- 20 November 2007
- Target decision date
- 22 January 2008
- Committee meeting
- 9 January 2008
- Decision issued
- 11 January 2008
- Decision published
- 14 January 2008
- Permission expires
- 11 January 2013
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- BE Group Ingot House Kelvin Close Birchwood Warrington WA3 7PB
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 91 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 7 November 2007
- Advertisement expiry
- 28 November 2007
Additional information
- Documents
- 13
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, conservation 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.
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