Planning application
Ringtail House 5 Ringtail Place Burscough Industrial Estate Burscough Ormskirk Lancashire L40 8LA
Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.
Proposal
Certificate of Lawfulness - Installation of a biomass boiler and flue.
As published by the council, reference 2021/0547/LDC
Application record
- Reference
- 2021/0547/LDC
- Type
- Lawful Development Cert. (existing)
- Status
- Decided
- Decision
- Cert of Lawfulness (EXISTING) Granted
- Received
- 22 Apr 2021
- Validated
- 22 Apr 2021
- Decided
- 22 Jun 2021
- Ward
- Burscough West
- Parish
- Burscough Town Council
- Decision by
- Delegated unless Member request to Cttee
- Postcode
- L40 8LA
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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22 Apr 2021
Received by West Lancashire
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22 Jun 2021
Decision issued: Cert of Lawfulness (EXISTING) Granted
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24 Aug 2026
Added to PlanIndex
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
4 documents on file for this application
A planning file usually holds the application form, drawings and site plans, consultee responses, the officer's report and the decision notice.
Trade members open them from here.
Open the documentsWhat a grant of permission means
The process from here
Permission has been granted, usually subject to conditions listed on the decision notice, some of which must be discharged before work starts. The decision notice on the council portal sets out exactly what was approved.
Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses. Neighbours cannot appeal a grant; challenging one means judicial review of how the decision was made, within tight time limits.
About lawful development applications
How this application type works
A lawful development certificate is a legal determination, not a planning judgement. It asks the council to confirm either that existing use or works are lawful, often through the passage of time, or that a proposal would not need planning permission at all. The applicant must prove the facts; the merits of the scheme are not considered.
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