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First Floor, 35-39 Bridge Street Darwen BB3 2AA

10/25/0920Full Planning ApplicationRefused
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Refused on 4 December 2025

Council decision: RefusesDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Proposed change of use from bar managers flat to self-contained flat (C3)

Received
8 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Darwen East
  1. Received8 Sep
  2. Validated9 Oct
  3. Consult.4 Dec
  4. Target20 Nov
  5. Decided4 Dec

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at First Floor, 35-39 Bridge Street Darwen BB3 2AA. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 1,326 applications of this type. This one was decided in 87 days, 5 weeks longer than Blackburn with Darwen's typical decision time. The site is in the Darwen Town Centre conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

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
BB3 2AA
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Darwen

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 October 2025
Consultation expiry
4 December 2025
Consultation start
10 October 2025
Consultation end
4 December 2025
Last date for comments
31 October 2025
Target decision date
20 November 2025
Application expires
4 December 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Darwen Town Centre

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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© 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.

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Source: Blackburn with Darwen

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