Linton Kirkham Road North of Bypass Freckleton Lancashire PR4 1HX Data via plota.co.uk

25/0381 - Full Planning Permission Approved

Proposal

Proposed conversion of ancillary care home building (use Class C2) to a school classroom building (use Class F1), extension to the existing car park including new vehicular access to Kirkham Road, associated landscaping and 2.4m mesh fence. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
24 Jun 2025
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Validated
31 Oct 2025
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Approved
24 Apr 2026

Approved on 24 Apr 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 10 Oct 2026

Documents 42

Decision & officer reports 1

PDF Decision Notice Decision · 24 Apr 2026 View ↗

Statements & assessments 19

PDF Construction Method Statement Additional Information · 31 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF Ecological Management Plan Amended Plan · 31 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF Ecological Impact Assessment Rev D Additional Information · 11 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF Biodiversity Net Gain Assessment Rev D Additional Information · 11 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF Statutory Biodiversity Metric Calculation Rev D Biodiversity Net Gain Metric · 11 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF transport statement provided by agent following LHA commenst Additional Information · 22 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Additional Information BNG Assessment amended · 19 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Ecological Impact Assessment Rev C Additional Information · 19 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Biodiversity Net Gain Metric Rev C Biodiversity Net Gain Metric · 19 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Background Documents Planning Statement · 28 Nov 2025 View ↗ PDF Arboricultural Survey Report Background Documents · 24 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF Ecological Impact Assessment Background Documents · 24 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF Biodiversity Net Gain Assessment Background Documents · 24 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF The Statutory Biodiversity Metric Calculation Tool Biodiversity Net Gain Metric · 24 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF Preliminary Ecological Appraisal Background Documents · 9 Sept 2025 View ↗ PDF Proposed Drainage Calculations Background Documents · 22 Aug 2025 View ↗ PDF Arboricultural Impact Assessment Plan Background Documents · 22 Aug 2025 View ↗ PDF Background Documents Transport Statement · 24 Jun 2025 View ↗ PDF Background Documents Statement of Need · 24 Jun 2025 View ↗

Plans & drawings 12

PDF Soft Landscape Specification Amended Plan · 31 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF Landscape Plan Amended Plan · 31 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF Existing - Site & Location Plans Amended Plan · 11 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF Proposed - Site Plan Amended Plan · 11 Mar 2026 View ↗ PDF Proposed Part Site Plan Amended Plan · 9 Feb 2026 View ↗ PDF Proposed Site Plan (100)-01 - P3 · 31 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF Existing Site & Location Plans (00)-01 - S3 · 31 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF 21001-SFH-XX-XX-DR-L-1001 - P02 Proposed Landscape Plan · 31 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF Proposed Part Site Plan (100)-02 - P2 · 24 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF Proposed Class Block Initial Drawing · 24 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF Existing Part Site Plan Initial Drawing · 24 Oct 2025 View ↗ PDF Existing Residential Block Initial Drawing · 24 Oct 2025 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form Redacted Application Form · 24 Jun 2025 View ↗

Consultation & comments 7

PDF Consultee Comment Highway Comments · 22 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF Freckleton Parish Council Consultee Comment · 8 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF Consultee Comment MOD · 20 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF Consultee Comment highway comments · 8 Jan 2026 View ↗ PDF Consultee Comment highway comments. · 21 Nov 2025 View ↗ PDF Consultee Comment GMEU · 20 Nov 2025 View ↗ PDF Freckleton Parish Council Consultee Comment · 3 Nov 2025 View ↗

Other documents 2

PDF Final Report Document · 24 Apr 2026 View ↗ PDF Soft Landscape Specification Background Documents · 24 Oct 2025 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Associated applications 3

Site constraints 4

Green belt: Blackpool
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.
Read the government guidance ↗
Agricultural land, grade 3b
Not 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 2. 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.
National infrastructure project about 219 m away: Morgan and Morecambe Offshore Wind Farms Transmission Assets
The site is about 219 m from the project boundary. Electricity line, decided. The project page says whether consent was granted. Also within 2 km: East Irish Sea Transmission Project (at pre-application, about 1774 m).
Nationally significant infrastructure projects (power stations, electricity lines, pipelines, major roads and railways, harbours, airports and reservoirs) are consented by a Secretary of State under the Planning Act 2008, after an examination by the Planning Inspectorate, rather than by the council. The boundary is the one the Inspectorate consults on and can change as the scheme does. Projects are shown within 2 km of the site.
Planning Inspectorate project page ↗
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 10 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 Planning Inspectorate 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
Fylde
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Postcode
PR4 1HX
Received
24 Jun 2025
Validated
31 Oct 2025
Ward
Rural East Fylde
Parish
Freckleton
Case officer
Show
Decision
Granted Subject to BNG
Decision date
24 Apr 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
Show
Agent
Planning Potential Ltd.

How this decision compares

Decided in 175 days from validation, 104 days slower than Fylde's median of 71 for full applications. Approved, as 97% of full applications here are.

35%decided within 8 weeks
97%approved
7%go to committee

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Fylde in the last twelve months, from validation. Fylde decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Consultation
3 Nov 2025
Comments by
21 Apr 2026
Site or press notice
13 Nov 2025

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025
COOPER HOUSE FARM KIRKHAM ROAD FRECKLETON PRESTON PR4 1HX
EXTENSION & ALTERATION OF THE DWELLING INCLUDING: 1) PROVISION OF FRENCH DOORS AND FIRST…
25/0533
2025
COOPER HOUSE FARM KIRKHAM ROAD FRECKLETON PRESTON PR4 1HX
EXTENSION & ALTERATION OF THE DWELLING INCLUDING: 1) PROVISION OF FRENCH DOORS AND FIRST…
25/0533
2023 Approved
MEADOW VIEW, KIRKHAM ROAD FRECKLETON PRESTON LANCASHIRE PR4 1HX
ERECTION OF AGRICULTURAL STORAGE BUILDING AND GLASSHOUSE
23/0262
2023 Approved
MEADOW VIEW, KIRKHAM ROAD FRECKLETON PRESTON LANCASHIRE PR4 1HX
ERECTION OF AGRICULTURAL STORAGE BUILDING AND GLASSHOUSE
23/0262
2022 Approved
LINTON KIRKHAM ROAD NORTH OF BYPASS FRECKLETON PRESTON LANCASHIRE PR4 1HX
RETROSPECTIVE PLANNING APPLICATION FOR CONTINUED USE OF ANCILLARY CARE HOME OUTBUILDINGS…
22/0498
2022 Approved
LINTON KIRKHAM ROAD NORTH OF BYPASS FRECKLETON PRESTON LANCASHIRE PR4 1HX
RETROSPECTIVE PLANNING APPLICATION FOR CONTINUED USE OF ANCILLARY CARE HOME OUTBUILDINGS…
22/0498
2019 Approved
MEADOW VIEW COTTAGE, KIRKHAM ROAD, FRECKLETON, PRESTON, PR4 1HX
SNN/19/0022
2019 Approved
MEADOW VIEW COTTAGE, KIRKHAM ROAD, FRECKLETON, PRESTON, PR4 1HX
SNN/19/0022
2017 Approved
COOPER HOUSE FARM, KIRKHAM ROAD, NORTH OF BYPASS, FRECKLETON, PRESTON, PR4 1HX
VARIATION OF CONDITION 8 ON PLANNING PERMISSION 15/0329 - TO EXTEND PERMISSION TO 30 YEARS
17/0191
2017 Approved
COOPER HOUSE FARM, KIRKHAM ROAD, NORTH OF BYPASS, FRECKLETON, PRESTON, PR4 1HX
VARIATION OF CONDITION 8 ON PLANNING PERMISSION 15/0329 - TO EXTEND PERMISSION TO 30 YEARS
17/0191
2016 Withdrawn
COOPER HOUSE FARM, KIRKHAM ROAD, NORTH OF BYPASS, FRECKLETON, PRESTON, PR4 1HX
VARIATION OF CONDITION 8 ON PLANNING PERMISSION 15/0329 - TO EXTEND PERMISSION FROM 25 TO…
16/0463
2016 Withdrawn
COOPER HOUSE FARM, KIRKHAM ROAD, NORTH OF BYPASS, FRECKLETON, PRESTON, PR4 1HX
VARIATION OF CONDITION 8 ON PLANNING PERMISSION 15/0329 - TO EXTEND PERMISSION FROM 25 TO…
16/0463
Fylde
Planning Authority Score
5.3/10
Average
#130 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Fylde ranks #184 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. 49% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are more likely to be approved here than most councils, with a 98% approval rate vs 90% nationally.

More permissive than most councils
98% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Fylde decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
96%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #11 of 296
98%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #17 of 296
60%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #184 of 296
49%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #220 of 296
79%
Minor dwellings approved
43 decided (1-9 homes)
100%
Major dwellings approved
9 decided (10+ homes)
100%
Change of use approved
28 decided
422
Total decisions
16 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings