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Blackburn Service Station Whalley Banks Blackburn BB2 1NT

10/23/0994Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 22 April 2024

Council decision: PermitsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed demolition of the existing petrol filling station, ancillary retail shop and chemist, and erection of a petrol filling station and associated infrastructure (sui generis)

Received
10 November 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Blackburn Central
  1. Received10 Nov
  2. Validated17 Nov
  3. Consult.22 Apr
  4. Target8 Apr
  5. Decided22 Apr

Decided in 157 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Blackburn Service Station Whalley Banks Blackburn BB2 1NT. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 1,326 applications of this type. This one was decided in 164 days, 16 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 69 applications across Blackburn Central. We hold 565 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 1NT
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Blackburn

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 November 2023
Consultation expiry
22 April 2024
Consultation start
17 November 2023
Consultation end
22 April 2024
Last date for comments
8 April 2024
Target decision date
8 April 2024
Application expires
5 January 2024
Permission expires
22 April 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
143 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 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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