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Rockets Car Repairs 375 Livesey Branch Road Blackburn BB2 4RA

10/25/0427Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved

Council decision: PermitsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of use of vacant back storage/office room to beauty therapy room with no external alterations

Received
16 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ewood
  1. Received16 Apr
  2. Validated29 Apr
  3. Consult.9 Jun
  4. Target9 Jun
  5. Decided

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Rockets Car Repairs 375 Livesey Branch Road Blackburn BB2 4RA. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 1,326 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 16 April 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 12 applications across Ewood. 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 4RA
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Blackburn

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 April 2025
Consultation expiry
9 June 2025
Consultation start
30 April 2025
Consultation end
9 June 2025
Last date for comments
22 May 2025
Application expires
23 June 2025
Permission expires
9 June 2028

Planning decision

Decision
Permits
Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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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