Planning application
Highfield House Coal Pit Lane Bickerstaffe Ormskirk Lancashire L39 0HH
Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.
Proposal
Approval of details reserved by conditions 4 & 5 of planning permission 2025/0261/FUL relating to Ecological Management and Coal Mining.
As published by the council, reference 2026/0335/CON
Application record
- Reference
- 2026/0335/CON
- Type
- Discharge of Condition(s)
- Status
- Awaiting decision
- Received
- 23 Apr 2026
- Validated
- 23 Apr 2026
- Ward
- Rural South Ward
- Parish
- Bickerstaffe
- Decision by
- Approval of Details on Condition
- Postcode
- L39 0HH
Comment by 30 September 2026
The council is taking comments on this application until then. Comments go to Sefton through their own planning portal.
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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23 Apr 2026
Received by Sefton
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21 Jul 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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Decision
Awaiting decision
Decision expected by 18 June 2026, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.
Sefton took a median of 62 days over the applications it decided in the last year.
Related applications
Cases linked to this one on the register
- Application: 2025/0261/FUL (Decided)
Who's behind it
Company information only, from the register and Companies House
Wignalls Chartered Surveyors Agent, a surveying firm
145 applications on PlanIndex · across 9 councils · 90% granted
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See their track recordDocuments
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
10 documents on file for this application
- The coal authority
- Updated coal information
- Coal authority response
- Geological & mining risk assessment
- The location plan
- Construction environmental management plan
- Geophysical survey
- Covering letter
Trade members open them from here.
Open the documentsWhat happens while it is decided
This application is with Sefton for determination, against a statutory target of eight weeks. Over the last year Sefton decided condition discharge and variation applications in a median of 63 days. More in our guide to how long planning decisions take.
About condition discharge and variation applications
This application deals with conditions on an existing permission, supplying the details a condition requires or asking to vary or remove one, without reopening the permission itself. More in our guide to planning application types.
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Awaiting decision Conditions 10 docs -
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