Planning application
Land Off Elmstead And Elmridge Tanhouse Skelmersdale Lancashire
Works: Demolition
Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.
Proposal
Proposed development of 3no. sites on Elmstead and 1no. site on Elmridge, consisting of the demolition of 6no. existing garages on Elmridge and the development of 16no. short term dwellings in two blocks of 8no. with the remaining two sites providing enhanced surface level car parking.
As published by the council, reference 2025/0875/FUL
Application record
- Reference
- 2025/0875/FUL
- Type
- Full Planning Application
- Status
- Awaiting decision
- Received
- 13 Oct 2025
- Validated
- 21 Oct 2025
- Ward
- Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre Ward
- Decision by
- Committee
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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13 Oct 2025
Received by West Lancashire
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21 Oct 2025
Validated
Checked as complete and ready for consideration.
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21 Jul 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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Decision
Awaiting decision
Decision expected by 16 December 2025, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.
West Lancashire took a median of 70 days over the applications it decided in the last year.
Who's behind it
Company information only, from the register and Companies House
Paddock Johnson Architects Agent, an architecture practice
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Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
73 documents on file for this application
- Coal authority
- Coal mining risk assessment
- Site constraints plan (for reference)
- Brick slip details
- Agent update and response to comments
- Consultation response - tree officer
- Highways
- United utilities
- Swept path analysis
- Meas
- Proposed drainage strategy (revised)
- Bng assessment (updated)
- Preliminary ecological appraisal & preliminary roost assessment
- Bng metric (updated)
- United utilities
- Consultation response - meas
- Housing strategy
- Llfa response
- Miss vicky latham-120a elswick tanhouse skelmersdale wn86bt-objects(full)
- Michelle holland -74 elmridge tanhouse skelmersdale wn8 6dd-objects(full)
- Gavin hassell -13 elmstead tanhouse skelmersdale wn86da-objects(full)
- Lcc highways response
- Mrs janet anderson -82 elmridge skelmersdale wn8 6dd-objects(full)
- Mr lester anderson -82 elmridge tanhouse skelmersdale wn8 6dd-objects(full)
- Ms catharine moss-13 elswick tanhouse skelmersdale wn8 6bx-objects(full)
- Catharine moss-13 elswick tanhouse skelmersdale wn8 6bx-objects(full)
- Mrs emma middleton-33 elmstead , skelmersdale wn8 6da-objects(full)
- Site notice
- Consultation/neighbours notified
- Existing garage elevations
- Existing site layout plan
- Application form - without personal data
- Site levels plan - existing
- Topographical survey
- Affordable housing statement
- Planning statement
- Drainage strategy (superseded)
- Surface water catchment plan
- External levels
- Flood exceedance plan
- Surface finishing and kerbing
- Drainage construction details
- Environmental assessment report
- Geo-environmental ground investigation
- Tree survey
- Drainage strategy revision b 2.0
- Ground floor plan
- Run off rate
- Sewer and mains water records
- Lcc flood authority advice
- Surface water calculations
- Surface water calculations
- Drainage documentation
- Drainage documentation
- Ground floor plan site 2
- Ground floor plan site 3
- First floor plan site 2
- First floor plan site 3
- Site 2
- Site 3
- Elevation site 2
- Elevation site 3
- Section site 2 - proposed
- Section site 3 - proposed
- The location plan
- Planting plan
- Visual of site 2
- Proposed street view
- Biodiversity net gain (superseded)
- Ecological appraisal (superseded)
- Layout plan - proposed
- Design and access statement
- Bng metric (superseded)
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