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White Lodge Farm Blackburn Road Edgworth Bolton BL7 0PU

10/25/0340Certificate of Lawfulness (Existing)Refused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 12 June 2025

Council decision: RefusesDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Siting of a static caravan (not for residential use) and use of the land as residential C3 use with the exception of the land where the caravan is located

Received
31 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
West Pennine
  1. Received31 Mar
  2. Validated9 Apr
  3. Consult.12 Jun
  4. Target15 May
  5. Decided12 Jun

Decided in 64 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at White Lodge Farm Blackburn Road Edgworth Bolton BL7 0PU. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 172 applications of this type. This one was decided in 73 days, 3 weeks longer than Blackburn with Darwen's typical decision time. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 78 applications across West Pennine. We hold 1,957 applications in total for the BL7 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
BL7 0PU
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness (Existing)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
North Turton

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 April 2025
Consultation expiry
12 June 2025
Consultation start
9 April 2025
Consultation end
12 June 2025
Last date for comments
30 April 2025
Target decision date
15 May 2025
Application expires
29 May 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
50 days

Additional information

Documents
7

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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