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Abacus Office Supplies 50 Richmond House Tontine Street Blackburn BB1 7ED

10/22/1214Full Planning ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 10 March 2023

Council decision: PermitsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed change of Use of part ground floor from office (Use Class E, (g)) to a coffee shop with delivery service (mixed use) and installation of extraction system. Erection of first floor extension to create primary office space and external alterations to front elevation

Received
21 December 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Blackburn Central
  1. Received21 Dec
  2. Validated18 Jan
  3. Consult.10 Mar
  4. Target1 Mar
  5. Decided10 Mar

Decided in 51 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Abacus Office Supplies 50 Richmond House Tontine Street Blackburn BB1 7ED. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 1,326 applications of this type. This one was decided in 79 days, 4 weeks longer than Blackburn with Darwen's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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 7ED
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Blackburn

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 January 2023
Consultation expiry
10 March 2023
Consultation start
18 January 2023
Consultation end
10 March 2023
Last date for comments
21 February 2023
Target decision date
1 March 2023
Application expires
15 March 2023
Permission expires
10 March 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

First advertised
7 February 2023

Additional information

Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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

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© 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.

Source: Blackburn with Darwen

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