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7 Wellington Street St Johns Blackburn BB1 8AF

10/25/0053Prior Approval - Commercial/Business/Service to DwellinghousesApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved

Council decision: Prior Approval is GivenDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Conversion of existing office (Class E) to dwelling house (C3)

Received
22 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Shear Brow & Corporation Park
  1. Received22 Jan
  2. Validated24 Jan
  3. Consult.18 Mar
  4. Target19 Feb
  5. Decided

About this application

This is an outline application at 7 Wellington Street St Johns Blackburn BB1 8AF. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 177 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 22 January 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in the Corporation Park conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 17 applications across Shear Brow & Corporation Park. We hold 656 applications in total for the BB1 postcode area.

88% of outline 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 8AF
Application type
Prior Approval - Commercial/Business/Service to Dwellinghouses
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Blackburn

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 January 2025
Consultation expiry
18 March 2025
Consultation start
24 January 2025
Consultation end
18 March 2025
Last date for comments
14 February 2025
Application expires
19 March 2025
Permission expires
18 March 2028

Planning decision

Decision
Prior Approval is Given
Statutory period
54 days

Additional information

Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Corporation Park
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Corporation Park Blackburn
  • 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, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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

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© 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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