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Old Town Hall King William Street Blackburn BB1 7DY

10/22/0187Listed Building Application (Regulation 3)Approved
Listed building consent

Approved on 22 April 2022

Council decision: ConsentPlanning committee

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Installation of Solar Photo Valtaic (SPV) arrays to roof areas

Received
18 February 2022
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Blackburn Central
  1. Received18 Feb
  2. Validated25 Feb
  3. Consult.22 Apr
  4. Target22 Apr
  5. Decided22 Apr

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a heritage application for a solar installation at Old Town Hall King William Street Blackburn BB1 7DY. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 106 applications of this type. This one was decided in 63 days, 2 weeks longer than Blackburn with Darwen's typical decision time. The site is in the Northgate conservation area, with 5 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 69 applications across Blackburn Central. We hold 656 applications in total for the BB1 postcode area.

97% of heritage applications at Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BB1 7DY
Application type
Listed Building Application (Regulation 3)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Blackburn

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 February 2022
Consultation expiry
22 April 2022
Consultation start
25 February 2022
Consultation end
22 April 2022
Last date for comments
30 March 2022
Target decision date
22 April 2022
Committee meeting
21 April 2022
Application expires
15 April 2022
Permission expires
22 April 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

First advertised
16 March 2022

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Northgate
  • Listed building: Grade II: Town HallOn or next to this site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Associated applications

  1. 2022
    18 Feb

    Installation of Solar Photo Valtaic (SPV) arrays to roof areas

    ApprovedFull Planning Application (Regulation 3)Filed alongside10/22/0186
  2. 2022
    18 Feb

    Installation of Solar Photo Valtaic (SPV) arrays to roof areas

    This applicationApprovedHeritage10/22/0187

Source: Blackburn with Darwen

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