Planning application
Mossfield Sugar Stubbs Lane Banks Southport Lancashire PR9 8DD
Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.
Proposal
Application for determination as to whether prior approval details is required - Class Q, - Conversion of agricultural storage building at Mossfield Farm, Sugar Stubbs Lane, Banks to 4 no. dwellings.
As published by the council, reference 2025/0975/PNC
Application record
- Reference
- 2025/0975/PNC
- Type
- Prior Notification - Change of Use
- Status
- Registered
- Received
- 17 Nov 2025
- Validated
- 17 Nov 2025
- Ward
- North Meols & Hesketh Bank Ward
- Parish
- North Meols
- Decision by
- Prior Notification 56 days
- Postcode
- PR9 8DD
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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17 Nov 2025
Received by West Lancashire
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21 Jul 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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Decision
Awaiting decision
Decision expected by 12 January 2026, 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
Wignalls Chartered Surveyors Agent, a surveying firm
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Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
21 documents on file for this application
- Environment agency response
- Pland with flood risk mitigation
- Highways
- Revised info response for ea
- Environmental
- Ea response from applicant
- Environmental agency response
- Drainage
- Environmental protection response
- Lancashire fire and rescue response
- Land contamination comments
- Noise assessment report
- Application form - without personal data
- Flood risk assessment
- Proposed floor & elevation
- Existing floor & elevation
- Proposed
- Covering letter
- Pnc conformity statement
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Open the documentsWhat happens while it is decided
This application is with West Lancashire for determination, against a statutory target of eight weeks. Over the last year West Lancashire decided prior approval applications in a median of 39 days. More in our guide to how long planning decisions take.
About prior approval applications
Prior approval applies where permitted development rights already grant the principle of the work, leaving the council only the specific matters the rules name, commonly within 56 days. More in our guide to planning application types.
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