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The Making Rooms 1-3 Exchange Street Blackburn BB1 7JN

10/24/1136Full Planning Application (Regulation 4)Approved
Full

Approved on 7 May 2025

Council decision: PermitsDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Construction of a partial additional storey on roof deck, installation of associated solar panels, formation of external roof terrace space, installation of external plant/ducting and implementation of various internal reconfigurations

Received
20 December 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Blackburn Central
  1. Received20 Dec
  2. Validated13 Jan
  3. Consult.15 May
  4. Target9 Apr
  5. Decided7 May

Decided in 114 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a solar installation at The Making Rooms 1-3 Exchange Street Blackburn BB1 7JN. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 1,326 applications of this type. This one was decided in 138 days, 13 weeks longer than Blackburn with Darwen's typical decision time. The site is in the Northgate conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. 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 7JN
Application type
Full Planning Application (Regulation 4)
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Blackburn

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 January 2025
Consultation expiry
15 May 2025
Consultation start
13 January 2025
Consultation end
15 May 2025
Last date for comments
15 May 2025
Target decision date
9 April 2025
Application expires
6 March 2025
Permission expires
7 May 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
86 days

Publicity

First advertised
13 February 2025

Additional information

Documents
36

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Northgate
  • Listed building: Grade II: Textile MuseumOn or next to this site
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, 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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