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79 Northgate Blackburn BB2 1AA

10/25/0145Full Planning ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 16 April 2025

Council decision: PermitsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use former wine bar into café (Use Class E(b)) at ground floor level and office (Use Class E(g)) on the first floor with the installation of a kitchen extraction flue and modification of the shop front to provide a second access door serving the first-floor office

Received
18 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Blackburn Central
  1. Received18 Feb
  2. Validated21 Feb
  3. Consult.16 Apr
  4. Target2 Apr
  5. Decided16 Apr

Decided in 54 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 79 Northgate Blackburn BB2 1AA. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 1,326 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days, 8 days longer than Blackburn with Darwen's typical decision time. The site is in the Northgate conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 69 applications across Blackburn Central. We hold 565 applications in total for the BB2 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
BB2 1AA
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Blackburn

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 February 2025
Consultation expiry
16 April 2025
Consultation start
21 February 2025
Consultation end
16 April 2025
Last date for comments
14 April 2025
Target decision date
2 April 2025
Application expires
16 April 2025
Permission expires
16 April 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
54 days

Publicity

First advertised
31 March 2025

Additional information

Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: NorthgatePart of the 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 (21)

flood storage 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

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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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