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The Former Fleece Inn 24-26 Penny Street Blackburn BB1 6HL

10/24/0689Full Planning Application (Regulation 3)Approved
Full

Approved on 20 September 2024

Council decision: PermitsPlanning committee

Proposal

Demolition of a former public house, infilling of the basement and preparation of the land to facilitate change of use to public car parking facilities

Received
22 July 2024
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Blackburn Central
  1. Received22 Jul
  2. Validated24 Jul
  3. Consult.1 Oct
  4. Target1 Oct
  5. Decided20 Sep

Decided in 58 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at The Former Fleece Inn 24-26 Penny Street Blackburn BB1 6HL. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 1,326 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 11 days 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 6HL
Application type
Full Planning Application (Regulation 3)
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Blackburn

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 July 2024
Consultation expiry
1 October 2024
Consultation start
24 July 2024
Consultation end
1 October 2024
Last date for comments
1 October 2024
Target decision date
1 October 2024
Committee meeting
19 September 2024
Application expires
16 September 2024
Permission expires
20 September 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
69 days

Additional information

Documents
17

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 2: Medium 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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