McDonalds Restaurants Ltd Preston New Road Samlesbury Preston Lancashire PR5 0UJ Data via plota.co.uk

07/2026/00369/NMA - Non-Material amendment Approved
Admin / proceduralCommercial premises

Proposal

Non-Material Amendment to planning permission ref (Erection of a drive-thru restaurant (Use Class E / Sui Generis) with associated access, servicing, car parking, hard and soft landscaping, substation, engineering works and other associated works. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
15 May 2026
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Validated
17 Jun 2026
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Approved
23 Jun 2026

Approved on 23 Jun 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 5 Jul 2026

Documents 14

Statements & assessments 2

PDF ECOLOGICAL APPRAISAL Planning File · 15 May 2026 View ↗ PDF DRAINAGE STATEMENT Planning File · 15 May 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 5

PDF TRAFFIC, FIRE AND WELFARE PLAN Planning File · 18 May 2026 View ↗ PDF TRAFFIC, FIRE AND WELFARE PLAN Planning File · 18 May 2026 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED SURFACE FINISHES PLAN Planning File · 15 May 2026 View ↗ PDF PROPOSED SITE PLAN Planning File · 15 May 2026 View ↗ PDF BLOCK PLAN Planning File · 15 May 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM REDACTED Planning File · 15 May 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 2

PDF CIL Consultee Response · 18 Jun 2026 View ↗ PDF CIL Consultee Response · 18 Jun 2026 View ↗

Other documents 4

PDF SITES METRIC Planning File · 15 May 2026 View ↗ PDF COVER LETTER Planning File · 15 May 2026 View ↗ PDF 10948-D-AIA Planning File · 15 May 2026 View ↗ PDF 10948- AIA Planning File · 15 May 2026 View ↗

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Associated applications 7

Site constraints 4

Green belt: Merseyside and Greater Manchester
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.
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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 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.
Local nature reserve about 260 m away: Fishwick Bottoms
Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.
Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.
Not affected
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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Important details

Council
South Ribble
Application type
Non-Material amendment
Postcode
PR5 0UJ
Received
15 May 2026
Validated
17 Jun 2026
Ward
Samlesbury and Walton
Parish
Samlesbury Parish Council
Case officer
Show
Target decision
15 Jul 2026
Decision
Approval
Decision date
23 Jun 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Agent
Lichfields

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14933377
Planning Portal ref
PP-14933377
Statutory expiry
15 Jul 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

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South Ribble
Planning Authority Score
7.8/10
Good
#30 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

South Ribble is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #79 out of 296. Householder applications are more likely to be approved here than most councils, with a 99% approval rate vs 90% nationally.

More permissive than most councils
99% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
South Ribble decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
95%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #27 of 296
99%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #7 of 296
75%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #79 of 296
36%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #115 of 296
95%
Minor dwellings approved
41 decided (1-9 homes)
75%
Major dwellings approved
4 decided (10+ homes)
92%
Change of use approved
12 decided
389
Total decisions
18 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings