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141 Whalley Old Road Blackburn BB1 5NZ

10/25/0170Full Planning ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 10 April 2025

Council decision: PermitsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of existing garage and external store and erection of single storey side and rear extension and rebuilding of rear store

Received
26 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Little Harwood & Whitebirk
  1. Received26 Feb
  2. Validated3 Mar
  3. Consult.10 Apr
  4. Target9 Apr
  5. Decided10 Apr

Decided in 38 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at 141 Whalley Old Road Blackburn BB1 5NZ. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 1,326 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 6 days quicker than Blackburn with Darwen's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 24 applications across Little Harwood & Whitebirk. 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 5NZ
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Blackburn

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 March 2025
Consultation expiry
10 April 2025
Consultation start
3 March 2025
Consultation end
10 April 2025
Last date for comments
24 March 2025
Target decision date
9 April 2025
Application expires
23 April 2025
Permission expires
10 April 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
51 days

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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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