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Richmond House 15 Richmond Terrace Blackburn BB1 7BQ

10/22/0262Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 5 May 2022

Council decision: PermitsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of existing listed office building (Class E, (g) to single dwelling house (C3)

Received
16 March 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Blackburn Central
  1. Received16 Mar
  2. Validated22 Mar
  3. Consult.5 May
  4. Target27 Apr
  5. Decided5 May

Decided in 44 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Richmond House 15 Richmond Terrace Blackburn BB1 7BQ. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 1,326 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days. The site is in the Richmond Terrace conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications 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.

96% of full 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 7BQ
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Blackburn

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 March 2022
Consultation expiry
5 May 2022
Consultation start
22 March 2022
Consultation end
5 May 2022
Last date for comments
12 April 2022
Target decision date
27 April 2022
Application expires
11 May 2022
Permission expires
5 May 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
50 days

Publicity

First advertised
29 March 2022

Additional information

Documents
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2022
    16 Mar

    Change of use of existing listed office building (Class E, (g) to single dwelling house (C3)

    This applicationApprovedFull10/22/0262
  2. 2022
    16 Mar

    Change of use of existing listed office building (Class E, (g) to single dwelling house (C3)

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongside10/22/0263

Source: Blackburn with Darwen

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