Nine dwellings at Land Rear Of Ingleborough View, Station Road, Hornby

Summary of planning committee decision

Decided by Lancaster Planning Regulatory Committee on 1 Sept 2025.

24/00597/VCNApproved

What was proposed

The application sought nine dwellings, detached garages, a new access, estate roads and landscaping through variations to conditions on an earlier permission.

“Erection of 9 dwellings (C3) with associated detached garages, formation of a new access and associated estate roads and landscaping (pursuant to the variation of conditions 2-14 and 18 on planning application 21/01370/FUL).”

Officer report

Who spoke

The application was proposed by Councillor Joyce Pritchard and seconded by Councillor Martin Bottoms.

What members considered

The motion proposed approval, with officers able to change the trigger for the arboricultural condition and an additional external-lighting condition.

“It was proposed by Councillor Joyce Pritchard and seconded by Councillor Martin Bottoms:”

“That the application be approved subject to the trigger for condition 6 (AIA) being delegated to officers to amend from pre-commencement condition to compliance if the submitted AIA is satisfactory, and subject to an additional condition to secure a scheme for external lighting to safeguard the National Landscape and its dark skies prior to installation of any external lighting, and subject to the conditions in the Committee Report.”

Minutes

The vote

Fifteen councillors voted for the proposal, with none against and no abstentions.

“Upon being put to the vote, 15 Councillors voted in favour of the proposal with none against and no abstentions, whereupon the Chair declared the proposal to have been carried.”

Minutes

The decision

The application was approved subject to the delegated arboricultural change, an external-lighting condition, a legal agreement and listed conditions.

“That the application be approved subject to:”

“the trigger for condition 6 (AIA) be delegated to officers to amend from pre- commencement condition to compliance if the submitted AIA is satisfactory. • and subject to an additional condition to secure a scheme for external lighting to safeguard the National Landscape and its dark skies prior to installation of any external lighting.”

Minutes

The legal agreement

The agreement was to secure two shared-ownership affordable homes, amenity greenspace, management arrangements and public access where possible.

“Provision of two shared-ownership Affordable Housing units (to be provided on site) in accordance with an Affordable Housing Scheme to be submitted and approved by the Council. • Provision of on-site Amenity Greenspace. • Setting up of a Management Company. • Management and Maintenance of all landscaping, unadopted roads, lighting and drainage infrastructure and on-site open space.”

“Securing a public access route for non-motorised walking, wheeling through the site if this links to public access through land immediately adjacent to the site.”

Minutes

Sources

  • Lancaster Planning Regulatory Committee minutes, 1 September 2025
  • Agenda and papers (council website)

Source: Plota analysis of Lancaster's committee minutes and officer report. Quotations are the council's own words; headings and summaries are Plota's.

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At the meeting

Council
Lancaster
Date
Monday 1 September 2025
Committee decided
Approved
Vote
15 for, 0 against
Minutes
The council's minutes
Meeting
Agenda and papers (council website)
Application
The application (council website)

Source: Plota analysis of the minutes.

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