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Unit F Towns Moor Retail Park Great Bolton Street Blackburn BB2 3PX

10/23/0183Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 23 August 2023

Council decision: PermitsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from Class E (Retail) to a coffee shop / restaurant selling food and drink for consumption on and off the premises (Sui Generis), erection of side extension, construction of a drive-thru lane and associated alterations to the building and elevations, car parking, servicing and landscaping

Received
3 March 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Blackburn Central
  1. Received3 Mar
  2. Validated10 Mar
  3. Consult.23 Aug
  4. Target24 May
  5. Decided23 Aug

Decided in 166 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a side extension at Unit F Towns Moor Retail Park Great Bolton Street Blackburn BB2 3PX. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 1,326 applications of this type. This one was decided in 173 days, 18 weeks longer than Blackburn with Darwen's typical decision time. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 69 applications across Blackburn Central. We hold 566 applications in total for the BB2 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
BB2 3PX
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Blackburn

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 March 2023
Consultation expiry
23 August 2023
Consultation start
10 March 2023
Consultation end
23 August 2023
Last date for comments
31 March 2023
Target decision date
24 May 2023
Application expires
28 April 2023
Permission expires
23 August 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
75 days

Additional information

Documents
30

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.

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