Darwen Youth Centre Knott Street Darwen BB3 3BU
Approved on 4 November 2025
Council decision: PermitsDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Discharge Condition No 21 "geo environmental investigation, risk assessment and outline remediation strategy" pursuant to planning application 10/23/0861
- Received
- 12 August 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Darwen East
- ReceivedReceived12 Aug
- ValidatedValidated14 Aug
- Consult.Consultation5 Nov
- TargetTarget Date23 Sep
- DecidedDecided4 Nov
Decided in 82 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an application to discharge conditions at Darwen Youth Centre Knott Street Darwen BB3 3BU. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 331 applications of this type. This one was decided in 84 days, 5 weeks longer than Blackburn with Darwen's typical decision time. The site is in the Darwen Town Centre conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 14 applications across Darwen East. We hold 605 applications in total for the BB3 postcode area.
97% of conditions 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
- BB3 3BU
- Application type
- Discharge of planning condition
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Darwen
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 14 August 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 5 November 2025
- Consultation start
- 14 August 2025
- Consultation end
- 5 November 2025
- Last date for comments
- 5 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 23 September 2025
- Application expires
- 7 October 2025
- Permission expires
- 4 November 2028
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 54 days
Additional information
- Documents
- 28
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Darwen Town Centre
- 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.
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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.
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Planning history at this site
4 other applications at this property, newest first.
- 202617 Feb
Discharge of Conditions 4 (Landscaping Scheme), 11 (External Lighting), 17 (Contamination Validation), 20…
PendingDischarge of conditions10/26/0138 - 202519 Nov
Non-material amendment pursuant to planning application 10/23/0861 supplemented by non-material amendment…
WithdrawnNon-material amendment10/25/1213 - 202531 Oct
Non-material amendment to planning application 10/23/0861 supplemented by non-material amendment application…
ApprovedNon-material amendment10/25/1146 - 202410 Dec
Non-material amendment pursuant to planning application 10/23/0861 "Erection of 2 no. side extensions to…
ApprovedNon-material amendment10/24/1094
Source: Blackburn with Darwen
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