Greenlot Farm Postern Gate Road Quernmore Lancaster Lancashire LA2 9EL Data via plota.co.uk

26/00937/EIR - EIA Screening Opinion Decided

Proposal

Screening request for the erection of extension to existing building and enlargement of existing underground slurry tank Data via plota.co.uk

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Received

16 Sept 2026

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ES Not Required

23 Sept 2026

ES Not Required on 23 Sept 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 23 Sept 2026

Documents 1

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF Screening opinion Decision Notices (p) · 23 Sept 2026 View ↗

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Site constraints 4

Forest Of Bowland National Landscape

Great weight to conserving the landscape; major development restricted.

Previously an area of outstanding natural beauty, which is still the designation in law. Since 2023 authorities must seek to further its purpose, not merely have regard to it.

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.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2

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

Radon affected area, class 5

An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.

From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.

UKHSA radon ↗

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, 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 1

Last sold for £1,700,000 in March 2025. Other property, freehold.

20 March 2025£1,700,000Recorded as a transfer outside a standard sale

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Other new applications on this street

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School House Postern Gate Road Quernmore Lancaster Lancashire LA2 9EL

Change of use of dwelling into nursery school

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Nearby new applications

16 Sept 2026Decided

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7 Sept 2026Approved

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Important details

Council: Lancaster
Application type: EIA Screening Opinion
Postcode: LA2 9EL
Received: 16 Sept 2026
Validated: 16 Sept 2026
Ward: Lower Lune Valley Ward
Parish: Quernmore
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 7 Oct 2026
Decision: ES Not Required
Decision date: 23 Sept 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: ML Planning Consultancy Ltd

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 23 Sept 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry: 7 Oct 2026
Env. assessment: No

Historical activity at this location

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

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025 Refused

Agricultural determination for the erection of a steel portal frame building

25/00565/AD 13 Jun 2025

2025 Refused

Agricultural determination for the erection of a steel portal frame building

25/00565/AD 13 Jun 2025

2025 Approved

Screening request for the erection of a steel portal frame building

25/00568/EIR 9 Jun 2025

2025 Approved

Screening request for the erection of a steel portal frame building

25/00568/EIR 9 Jun 2025

2019 Approved

Erection of an agricultural building to cover existing milking parlour and collecting yard

19/01205/FUL 12 Nov 2019

2019 Approved

Erection of an agricultural building to cover existing milking parlour and collecting yard

19/01205/FUL 12 Nov 2019

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

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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