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59-61 King William Street (upper floors) Blackburn BB1 7DJ

10/25/0559Prior Approval - Commercial/Business/etc to Mixed Use inc up to 2 flatsApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 16 July 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval is not requiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of Use of Upper Floors from Class E (Ancillary Retail) to 2 No. Residential Flats (use Class C3

Received
27 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Blackburn Central
  1. Received27 May
  2. Validated2 Jun
  3. Consult.16 Jul
  4. Target24 Jun
  5. Decided16 Jul

Decided in 44 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 59-61 King William Street (upper floors) Blackburn BB1 7DJ. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 177 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days. The site is in the Northgate conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 69 applications across Blackburn Central. 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 7DJ
Application type
Prior Approval - Commercial/Business/etc to Mixed Use inc up to 2 flats
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Blackburn

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 June 2025
Consultation expiry
16 July 2025
Consultation start
2 June 2025
Consultation end
16 July 2025
Last date for comments
23 June 2025
Target decision date
24 June 2025
Application expires
22 July 2025
Permission expires
16 July 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
50 days

Additional information

Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Northgate
  • 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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