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26/00362/PLDC - Proposed Lawful Development Certificate Refused
Extensions & alterations

Proposal

Proposed lawful development certificate for the erection of a detached toilet/shower block Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
2 Apr 2026
✓
Validated
29 May 2026
✗
Refused
15 Jul 2026
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 15 Jul 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 25 Jul 2026

Documents 3

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Decision notice Decision Notices (p) · 15 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF Delegated report Officer Report (p) · 13 Jul 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF Application form Application Forms (p) · 2 Apr 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 10

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 ↗
Glasson Dock conservation area
Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.
The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.
Council document ↗
Article 4 direction
Glasson Dock. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.
An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.
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.
Special protection area 136 m away: Morecambe Bay
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.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
SSSI 136 m away: Cockerham Marsh SSSI
Natural England may need consulting, depending on what is proposed.
Sites of special scientific interest are the best wildlife and geological sites in the country. Development likely to harm one is rarely permitted.
Also on the record
1 listed building within 150 m; Radon affected area, class 2; Nature improvement area: Morecambe Bay Limestones and Wetlands.
Not affected
Not green belt · No scheduled monument 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.

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Important details

Council
Lancaster
Application type
Proposed Lawful Development Certificate
Postcode
LA2 0AR
Received
2 Apr 2026
Validated
29 May 2026
Ward
Ellel Ward
Parish
Thurnham
Case officer
Show
Target decision
24 Jul 2026
Decision
Lawful Development Certificate Refused
Decision date
15 Jul 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Architectural Design Consultants

How this decision compares

Decided in 47 days from validation, 5 days faster than Lancaster's median of 52 for extensions. Refused, as 13% of extensions here are.

83%decided within 8 weeks
87%approved
319decided in the last year

Plota live figures for extensions decided by Lancaster in the last twelve months, from validation. Lancaster decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-14827018
Planning Portal ref
PP-14827018
Statutory expiry
24 Jul 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

2020 Approved
Discharge of conditions 3, 4 and 5 on approved application 19/01507/FUL
20/00077/DIS
2020 Approved
Discharge of conditions 3, 4 and 5 on approved application 19/01507/FUL
20/00077/DIS
2019 Approved
Erection of a part single part two storey extension to the south elevation and a single s…
19/01507/FUL
2019 Approved
Erection of a part single part two storey extension to the south elevation and a single s…
19/01507/FUL
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2018 Approved
Glasson Basin Marina School Lane Glasson Dock Lancashire LA2 0AW
Erection of a portal frame warehouse building
18/01336/FUL
2018 Approved
Glasson Basin Marina School Lane Glasson Dock Lancashire LA2 0AW
Erection of a portal frame warehouse building
18/01336/FUL
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
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings