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Ashleigh Primary School Ross Street Darwen BB3 2JT

10/23/0544Application to undertake works to protected treesApproved

Approved on 17 July 2023

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

T3 Rowan - Fell due to having extensive stem decay T4 Rowan - Fell due to being in extensive decline T5 Ash - Fell due to being in extensive decline from ash dieback T10 Beech - Fell to create habitat pole due to having extensive stem decay and basal decay colonised by the decay fungi Ganoderma spp

Received
23 June 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Darwen South, West Pennine, Whitehall
  1. Received23 Jun
  2. Validated17 Jul
  3. Consult.17 Jul
  4. Target28 Aug
  5. Decided17 Jul

Decided in 0 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Ashleigh Primary School Ross Street Darwen BB3 2JT. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 236 applications of this type. This one was decided in 24 days, 4 weeks quicker than Blackburn with Darwen's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 605 applications in total for the BB3 postcode area.

97% of trees 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
BB3 2JT
Application type
Application to undertake works to protected trees
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Darwen

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 July 2023
Consultation expiry
17 July 2023
Consultation end
17 July 2023
Last date for comments
23 June 2023
Target decision date
28 August 2023
Application expires
18 August 2023
Permission expires
17 July 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
5

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 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

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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