Highfield 20 Bett Lane Higher Wheelton Chorley PR6 8JH Data via plota.co.uk
Proposal
Change of use of a parcel of land from agricultural use to residential garden land incidental to 20 Bett Lane. No buildings, structures or engineering operations are proposed. The site is enclosed by post and rail fencing, installed in accordance with the agreed boundary treatment. Data via plota.co.uk
Application progress
Refused on 19 Jun 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 5 Jul 2026
Documents 13
Decision & officer reports 3
Statements & assessments 1
Plans & drawings 1
Consultation & comments 5
Site constraints 7
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 Mining Remediation Authority, 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.
Sales history 2
Last sold for £757,500 in July 2022. Detached house, freehold.
Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.
Building
From the energy performance certificate lodged in March 2022, the latest held for this property, matched to this application by its address. The building may have changed since. View the certificate
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Important details
How this decision compares
Decided in 54 days from validation, about the council's usual 56 days. Refused, as 32% of changes of use here are.
Plota live figures for changes of use decided by Chorley in the last twelve months, from validation. Chorley decision record →
Consultation & key dates
- Alt. reference
- PP-14887633
- Planning Portal ref
- PP-14887633
- Comments by
- 22 May 2026
- Statutory expiry
- 21 Jun 2026
- Env. assessment
- No
Historical activity at this location
25 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.
Nearby activity
Chorley is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #49 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (95%) than the national average (90%).
Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Energy performance: Energy performance certificates from the Energy Performance of Buildings Register, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright 2026.
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