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185 Duckworth Street Darwen BB3 1AU

10/25/0943Full Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 11 November 2025

Council decision: PermitsDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Change of use from opticians (Class E) to laundrette (Sui Generis)

Received
16 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Darwen East
  1. Received16 Sep
  2. Validated19 Sep
  3. Consult.11 Nov
  4. Target31 Oct
  5. Decided11 Nov

Decided in 53 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 185 Duckworth Street Darwen BB3 1AU. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 1,326 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days longer than Blackburn with Darwen's typical decision time. The site is in the Darwen Town Centre conservation area. There has been 1 other application 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 1AU
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Darwen

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 September 2025
Consultation expiry
11 November 2025
Consultation start
22 September 2025
Consultation end
11 November 2025
Last date for comments
23 October 2025
Target decision date
31 October 2025
Application expires
14 November 2025
Permission expires
11 November 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

First advertised
9 October 2025

Additional information

Documents
9

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 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)
  • 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.

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.

Source: Blackburn with Darwen

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