Marsh Lea Trailholme Road Overton Morecambe Lancashire LA3 3HW Data via plota.co.uk

26/00371/FUL - Full Application Approved
DemolitionExtensions & alterations

Proposal

Demolition of existing store/garage and erection of a replacement garage Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
8 Apr 2026
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Consultation
9 Apr 2026
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Approved
22 May 2026

Approved on 22 May 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 5 Jul 2026

Documents 7

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Decision notice Decision Notices (p) · 22 May 2026 View ↗ PDF Delegated report Officer Report (p) · 21 May 2026 View ↗

Statements & assessments 2

PDF Flood risk assessment Application Amendments (p) · 20 May 2026 View ↗ PDF (superceded) flood risk assessment Flood Risk Assessment (p) · 9 Apr 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 2

PDF Rev b Existing drawings Application Amendments (p) · 20 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF Rev b Proposed drawings Application Amendments (p) · 20 Apr 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF Application form Application Forms (p) · 9 Apr 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 10

Flood zone 3, rivers and sea
High chance: a 1 in 100 or greater annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
Public footpath about 11 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
Agricultural land, grade 2
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 3. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
National infrastructure project about 173 m away: Walney Extension Offshore Wind Farm
The site is about 173 m from the project boundary. Generating station, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted.
Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.
Planning Inspectorate project page ↗
Habitat network: Restorable Habitat
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 2; Nature improvement area: Morecambe Bay Limestones and Wetlands; Special protection area about 490 m away: Morecambe Bay and Duddon Estuary; SSSI about 492 m away: Cockerham Marsh SSSI; Priority habitat about 10 m away: Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh.
Not affected
Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Planning Inspectorate, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Lancaster
Application type
Full Application
Postcode
LA3 3HW
Received
8 Apr 2026
Validated
8 Apr 2026
Ward
Overton Ward
Parish
Overton
Case officer
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Target decision
3 Jun 2026
Decision
Application Permitted
Decision date
22 May 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Agent
Rocket Architects LLP

How this decision compares

Decided in 44 days from validation, 12 days faster than Lancaster's median of 56 for demolitions. Approved, as 95% of demolitions here are.

62%decided within 8 weeks
95%approved
72decided in the last year

Plota live figures for demolitions decided by Lancaster in the last twelve months, from validation. Lancaster decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14840868
Planning Portal ref
PP-14840868
Neighbours
9 Apr 2026
Consultation
9 Apr 2026
Comments by
21 May 2026
Site or press notice
29 Apr 2026
Statutory expiry
3 Jun 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

2 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

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2023 Approved
Trumley Farm Trailholme Road Overton Morecambe Lancashire LA3 3HW
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Lancaster
Planning Authority Score
5/10
Average
#147 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Lancaster is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #84 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (87%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Lancaster decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
83%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #237 of 296
87%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #231 of 296
74%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #84 of 296
38%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #130 of 296
71%
Minor dwellings approved
45 decided (1-9 homes)
63%
Major dwellings approved
16 decided (10+ homes)
63%
Change of use approved
48 decided
717
Total decisions
122 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings