Land at Causeway Farm Longsight Road Balderstone BB2 7HZ Data via plota.co.uk

3/2026/0078 - Outline Refused
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Application progress

✓
Received
2 Feb 2026
✓
Validated
8 May 2026
✗
Refused
24 Jul 2026
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 24 Jul 2026 · Last checked 24 Sept 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Ribble Valley Planning and Development on 23 Jul 2026.

Refused

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised refusal because the location was unsustainable and the scheme caused landscape, highway, ecology, noise and drainage harm.
  • The committee refused planning permission for seven reasons covering sustainability, landscape, ecology, biodiversity, highways, drainage and noise.
Read how the committee decided The proposal, site history, officers’ assessment, objections, consultation responses and committee decision.

Source: Plota analysis of Ribble Valley's committee minutes of 23 Jul 2026.

Documents

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Site constraints 3

Public footpath about 28 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.
Also on the record
Inside the Osbaldeston built-up area; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · 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 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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Other new applications on this street

13 Jul 2026Withdrawn

Land off Longsight Road, Osbaldeston, BB2 7JB.

Permission in principle

3/2026/0513

Important details

Council
Ribble Valley
Application type
Outline
Postcode
BB2 7HZ
Received
2 Feb 2026
Validated
8 May 2026
Decision
REFUSED
Decision date
24 Jul 2026

How this decision compares

Decided in 77 days from validation, 47 days slower than Ribble Valley's median of 30 for outline applications. Refused, as 61% of outline applications here are.

89%decided within 8 weeks
39%approved
20decided in the last year

Plota live figures for outline applications decided by Ribble Valley in the last twelve months, from validation. Ribble Valley decision record →

Historical activity at this location

8 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2024 Refused
Outline planning application for up to 9,290sqm of employment development. (Use Class B2…
36824
2024 Refused
Outline planning application for up to 9,290sqm of employment development. (Use Class B2…
36824
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2017 Approved
Causeway Farm Longsight Road Balderstone BB2 7HZ
Discharge of condition 9 (bat boxes and bird boxes) from planning permission 3/2017/0825.
29219
2017 Approved
Causeway Farm Longsight Road Balderstone BB2 7HZ
Discharge of condition 9 (bat boxes and bird boxes) from planning permission 3/2017/0825.
29219
2017 Approved
Causeway Farm Longsight Road Balderstone BB2 7HZ
Conversion of existing agricultural building into cattery.
28833
2017 Approved
Causeway Farm Longsight Road Balderstone BB2 7HZ
Conversion of existing agricultural building into cattery.
28833
2016 Approved
Causeway Farm Longsight Road Clayton le Dale BB2 7HZ
Discharge of condition(s) 4 (historic building recording analysis) from planning permissi…
27774
2016 Approved
Causeway Farm Longsight Road Clayton le Dale BB2 7HZ
Discharge of condition(s) 4 (historic building recording analysis) from planning permissi…
27774
Ribble Valley
Planning Authority Score
3.4/10
Poor
#222 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Major dwellings

Ribble Valley is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #212 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (91%) than the national average (90%).

Slower than most councils
for householder decisions
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Ribble Valley decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
83%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #241 of 296
91%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #179 of 296
55%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #212 of 296
45%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #194 of 296
64%
Minor dwellings approved
58 decided (1-9 homes)
67%
Major dwellings approved
6 decided (10+ homes)
59%
Change of use approved
51 decided
520
Total decisions
89 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings