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Darwen Youth Centre Knott Street Darwen BB3 3BU

10/24/1094Non-Material AmendmentApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 5 March 2025

Council decision: PermitsDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Non-material amendment pursuant to planning application 10/23/0861 "Erection of 2 no. side extensions to provide stair towers up to a new floor level above the existing ground floor, and 1 no. front extension to provide a main entrance, alongside internal reconfigurations, as well as the relocation of the existing MUGA, vehicular parking alterations and landscaping works " as amended by non-material amendment application 10/24/0333 'to amend the wording of Condition No.16 to allow for demolition of the existing building prior to Condition No. 16 being formally discharged

Received
10 December 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Darwen East
  1. Received10 Dec
  2. Validated13 Dec
  3. Consult.5 Mar
  4. Target24 Dec
  5. Decided5 Mar

Decided in 82 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Darwen Youth Centre Knott Street Darwen BB3 3BU. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 172 applications of this type. This one was decided in 85 days, 5 weeks longer than Blackburn with Darwen's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 14 applications across Darwen East. 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 3BU
Application type
Non-Material Amendment
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Darwen

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 December 2024
Consultation expiry
5 March 2025
Consultation start
13 December 2024
Consultation end
5 March 2025
Last date for comments
13 December 2024
Target decision date
24 December 2024
Application expires
7 January 2025
Permission expires
18 December 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
25 days

Additional information

Documents
5

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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