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Land at Shaw's of Darwen Mill Complex, Whitebirk Works off Johnson New Road Higher Waterside Hoddlesden Darwen BB3 3NX

10/24/0879Full Planning Application (Retrospective)Withdrawn
Full

Withdrawn

Council decision: X Withdrawn DecisionWithdrawn-Council

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Formation of a parking area to be used in association with the wider employment site/existing mill complex together with associated boundary treatment and landscaping

Received
4 October 2024
Decision level
Withdrawn-Council
Ward
Planning Support Team
  1. Received4 Oct
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Land at Shaw's of Darwen Mill Complex, Whitebirk Works off Johnson New Road Higher Waterside Hoddlesden Darwen BB3 3NX. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 172 applications of this type. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 7 applications across Planning Support Team. We hold 605 applications in total for the BB3 postcode area.

92% of amendment 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
BB3 3NX
Application type
Full Planning Application (Retrospective)

Planning application dates

Validated
4 October 2024

Planning decision

Decision
X Withdrawn Decision

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Green belt: Blackburn with Darwen
  • 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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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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