Permission sought for building in grounds of Ladyshore House

Tony Dudley submitted the application on August 6 for a ‘single storey domestic building’ on the grounds of Grade II listed Ladyshore House, Little Lever – a building that has already been there for ten years.

In 2025, an application was made for a house on the same land, which the owner had to apply for retrospective permission as the go-ahead had originally been granted only for a double garage.

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The application notes the ‘protracted’ planning history of the property, and stresses the application, in itself, ‘should not be interpreted as an acceptance that Listed Building Consent is in fact required.’

The heritage statement said: “The application has been submitted in courteous response to correspondence from Bolton Council‘s Planning Enforcement Team dated 13 May 2026, which asserts that the building requires Listed Building Consent because it has been erected within the curtilage of the Grade II Listed Ladyshore House.

“The applicant has no desire to prolong what has, in recent years, become an increasingly protracted planning history associated with Ladyshore House.

“Separate proposals elsewhere on the wider site have resulted in numerous planning applications, repeated visits from Planning Enforcement and ongoing enforcement appeals.

“Against that background, Mr Dudley has understandably become anxious to draw matters to a close wherever reasonably possible and avoid further unnecessary disagreement with the Local Planning Authority.

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“It is respectfully submitted that the building causes no harm whatsoever to the significance of the Grade II listed Ladyshore House or to the contribution made by its setting to that significance.”

The building itself is described as a ‘simple ancillary domestic structure with a mono-pitched roof,’ which has been constructed using ‘traditional brickwork’.

It is used by the property owners as a ‘garden room, store and incidental recreational space,’ sitting near to the rear of a pre-existing stable building on the site.