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Unit 10 Iron Business Park Blackburn BB2 3PZ

10/25/0795Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 17 October 2025

Council decision: PermitsPlanning committee

Proposal

Proposed change of use of existing warehouse (class B8) as an indoor sport facility with ancillary indoor café (class E(d)). Addition of new entrance and exit openings to front elevation.

Received
1 August 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Blackburn Central
  1. Received1 Aug
  2. Validated6 Aug
  3. Consult.17 Oct
  4. Target22 Oct
  5. Decided17 Oct

Decided in 72 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Unit 10 Iron Business Park Blackburn BB2 3PZ. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 1,326 applications of this type. This one was decided in 77 days, 4 weeks longer than Blackburn with Darwen's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 69 applications across Blackburn Central. 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 3PZ
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Blackburn

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 August 2025
Consultation expiry
17 October 2025
Consultation start
6 August 2025
Consultation end
17 October 2025
Last date for comments
14 October 2025
Target decision date
22 October 2025
Committee meeting
16 October 2025
Application expires
5 November 2025
Permission expires
17 October 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

First advertised
21 August 2025

Additional information

Documents
17

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.

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