New Hall Stables Lancaster Road Pilling Preston Lancashire PR3 6SQ Data via plota.co.uk

26/00312/FUL - Full Application Refused

Proposal

Erection of self-build dwelling (C3) for a rural worker with package treatment plant for foul waste. Change of use of part of existing stables to form a specialist equine dental unit and post operative aftercare stable (Sui Generis). Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 08:57

Application progress

✓

Received

15 Apr 2026

✓

Validated

23 Apr 2026

✓

Consultation

14 May 2026

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Refused

1 Jul 2026

Appeal

Not lodged

Refused on 1 Jul 2026 · Committee Decision · Last checked 5 Jul 2026

Documents 32

Consultation & comments 10

Site constraints 5

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 ↗

Agricultural land, grade 4

Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. 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 2. 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 530 m away: Preesall Saltfield Underground Gas Storage

The site is about 530 m from the project boundary. Underground gas storage, 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: Network Enhancement Zone 1

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

Nature improvement area: Morecambe Bay Limestones and Wetlands.

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 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: Wyre
Application type: Full Application
Postcode: PR3 6SQ
Received: 15 Apr 2026
Validated: 23 Apr 2026
Ward: Pilling
Parish: Pilling
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 18 Jun 2026
Decision: Application Refused
Decision date: 1 Jul 2026
Decision level: Committee Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Rural Futures

How this decision compares

Decided in 69 days from validation, 24 days slower than Wyre's median of 45 for agricultural works. Refused, as 29% of agricultural works here are.

This one69d

Council45d

UK44d

61%decided within 8 weeks

71%approved

9%go to committee

Plota live figures for agricultural works decided by Wyre in the last twelve months, from validation. Wyre decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-14853681
Planning Portal ref: PP-14853681
Neighbours: 27 Apr 2026
Consultation: 14 May 2026
Comments by: 12 Jun 2026
Site or press notice: 22 May 2026
Committee: 1 Jul 2026
Statutory expiry: 18 Jun 2026
Env. assessment: No

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2019 Approved

The Byre Lancaster Road Pilling Preston Lancashire PR3 6SQ

Front porch

19/00342/FUL 3 Jun 2019

2017 Refused

Willow Tree Cottage Lancaster Road Pilling Preston Lancashire PR3 6SQ

Erection of single storey side extension

17/00507/FUL 9 Aug 2017

2017 Refused

Willow Tree Cottage Lancaster Road Pilling Preston Lancashire PR3 6SQ

Erection of single storey side extension

17/00507/FUL 9 Aug 2017

Wyre

Planning Authority Score

1.2/10

Poor

#288 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Change of use

Wyre is one of the slowest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #272 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 66% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (88%) than the national average (90%).

Among the slowest councils in England

for householder decisions

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Wyre decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

83%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #243 of 296

88%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #228 of 296

38%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #272 of 296

66%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #281 of 296

56%

Minor dwellings approved

41 decided (1-9 homes)

67%

Major dwellings approved

6 decided (10+ homes)

75%

Change of use approved

52 decided

539

Total decisions

90 refused in the year to March 2026