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Land at The Croft & Fernbank House, off East Park Road Blackburn

10/24/0029Application to undertake works to protected treesApproved

Approved on 11 January 2024

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

2781 - Sycamore - Fell

Received
21 December 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Shear Brow & Corporation Park
  1. Received21 Dec
  2. Validated11 Jan
  3. Consult.11 Jan
  4. Target22 Feb
  5. Decided11 Jan

Decided in 0 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Land at The Croft & Fernbank House, off East Park Road Blackburn. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 236 applications of this type. This one was decided in 21 days, 4 weeks quicker than Blackburn with Darwen's typical decision time. The site is in the Corporation Park conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 17 applications across Shear Brow & Corporation Park.

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

Application type
Application to undertake works to protected trees
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Blackburn

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 January 2024
Consultation expiry
11 January 2024
Consultation end
11 January 2024
Last date for comments
21 December 2023
Target decision date
22 February 2024
Application expires
15 February 2024
Permission expires
11 January 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Corporation Park
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Corporation Park Blackburn
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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.

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  2. 2023
    21 Dec

    2781 - Sycamore - Fell

    This applicationApprovedTrees10/24/0029

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