Orchard House, Blackburn Jobcentre Plus Penny Street Blackburn BB1 6HA
Approved on 20 September 2024
Council decision: PermitsDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Provision of new ventilation louvres to elevations and new external plant compound to rear of staff car park
- Received
- 30 May 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Blackburn Central
- ReceivedReceived30 May
- ValidatedValidated6 Jun
- Consult.Consultation20 Sep
- TargetTarget Date11 Jul
- DecidedDecided20 Sep
Decided in 106 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Orchard House, Blackburn Jobcentre Plus Penny Street Blackburn BB1 6HA. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 1,326 applications of this type. This one was decided in 113 days, 9 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 656 applications in total for the BB1 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
- BB1 6HA
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Blackburn
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 6 June 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 20 September 2024
- Consultation start
- 7 June 2024
- Consultation end
- 20 September 2024
- Last date for comments
- 28 June 2024
- Target decision date
- 11 July 2024
- Application expires
- 25 July 2024
- Permission expires
- 20 September 2027
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 49 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 15
Site constraints
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.
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Source: Blackburn with Darwen
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