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Land at the former Sappi Paper Mill (former Sappi Site) Livesey Branch Road Blackburn BB2 5FD

10/24/0806Variation of Legal Agreement/S106Approved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 8 August 2025

Council decision: PermitsPlanning committee

Proposal

Variation to S106 Agreement pursuant to planning application 10/18/0317 to: - Amend schedule 6 paragraph 1.3.2 to allow the developer a further 2 years to complete the spine road construction by December 2026

Received
5 September 2024
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Livesey With Pleasington
  1. Received5 Sep
  2. Validated6 Sep
  3. Consult.8 Aug
  4. Target27 Mar
  5. Decided8 Aug

Decided in 336 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Land at the former Sappi Paper Mill (former Sappi Site) Livesey Branch Road Blackburn BB2 5FD. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 331 applications of this type. This one was decided in 337 days, 41 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 23 applications across Livesey With Pleasington. We hold 565 applications in total for the BB2 postcode area.

97% of conditions 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 5FD
Application type
Variation of Legal Agreement/S106
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Livesey

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 September 2024
Consultation expiry
8 August 2025
Consultation start
6 September 2024
Consultation end
8 August 2025
Last date for comments
27 March 2025
Target decision date
27 March 2025
Committee meeting
17 April 2025
Application expires
31 October 2024
Permission expires
8 August 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
202 days

Publicity

First advertised
20 September 2024

Additional information

Documents
10

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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