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Former Balle Mill Site Balle Street Darwen

10/23/0420Variation/Removal of Condition/Minor Material AmendmentApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 20 July 2023

Council decision: PermitsDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Variation of Condition No.17 "Maximum noise rating " and removal of Condition No.20 "hours of use" - to allow 24 hour use Monday to Sunday, pursuant to planning application 10/22/0041 "Construction of a new 33,500sqft unit for uses within class B8 and E(g) and associated car parking and landscaping."

Received
17 May 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Darwen South
  1. Received17 May
  2. Validated22 May
  3. Consult.20 Jul
  4. Target2 Aug
  5. Decided20 Jul

Decided in 59 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Former Balle Mill Site Balle Street Darwen. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 331 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 2 weeks longer than Blackburn with Darwen's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 20 applications across Darwen South.

97% of conditions 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

Application type
Variation/Removal of Condition/Minor Material Amendment
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Darwen

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 May 2023
Consultation expiry
20 July 2023
Consultation start
22 May 2023
Consultation end
20 July 2023
Last date for comments
13 June 2023
Target decision date
2 August 2023
Application expires
16 August 2023
Permission expires
20 July 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
86 days

Publicity

First advertised
30 May 2023

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Flood zone 3: High 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

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.

Source: Blackburn with Darwen

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