Chetham Farm High Street Chapeltown Bolton BL7 0EZ
Approved on 20 August 2025
Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Siting of caravan for ancillary residential use
- Received
- 24 June 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- West Pennine
- ReceivedReceived24 Jun
- ValidatedValidated9 Jul
- Consult.Consultation20 Aug
- TargetTarget Date6 Aug
- DecidedDecided20 Aug
Decided in 42 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application at Chetham Farm High Street Chapeltown Bolton BL7 0EZ. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 177 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 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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.
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
- BL7 0EZ
- Application type
- Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed)
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- North Turton
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 9 July 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 20 August 2025
- Consultation start
- 9 July 2025
- Consultation end
- 20 August 2025
- Last date for comments
- 30 July 2025
- Target decision date
- 6 August 2025
- Application expires
- 20 August 2025
- Permission expires
- 20 August 2028
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 6
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Green belt: Blackburn with Darwen
- 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, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.
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Source: Blackburn with Darwen
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