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Phases 7-11 "Green Hills Residential Development" Land off Broken Stone Road/Livesey Branch Road on land within the Gib Lane Masterplan Area Blackburn

10/25/1184Non-Material AmendmentApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 9 December 2025

Council decision: PermitsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Non-material amendment pursuant to planning application 10/21/1022 " Approval of the matters reserved by the Outline (Hybrid) planning permission ref: 10/21/0343 (Appearance, Landscaping, Scale and Layout) for the erection of 280 dwellings" - Plot 335 change from Croston 2M to a Scarisbrick 4; Plot 334 change from Croston 3M to a Croston 2M; Plot 332 change from Rivington 5 to a Rivington 5M; Plot 234 & 352 change from Croston 2 to a Croston 2M; Plots 323, 398 and 404 change from Croston 2M to Ribchester 4; Plots 322 & 353 change from Croston 3 to Scarisbrick 4; Plots 377 & 374 change from Croston 2 to Rufford 4; Plot 358 change from Croston 3M to Scarisbrick 4; Plot 357 change from Croston 3 to Croston 3M; Plot 403 change from Ribchester 3 to Heskin 4; Plot 407 change from Croston 3 to Croston 3M; Plots 384 and 380 to have small double garage; Redesign of Heskin 5 house type; Resdesign of Ribchester 5 garage annex; all Rivington 4 house types to be able to be implemented as either a Rivington 4 or Rivington 4M.

Received
14 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Planning Officer
  1. Received14 Nov
  2. Validated18 Nov
  3. Consult.9 Dec
  4. Target28 Nov
  5. Decided9 Dec

Decided in 21 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Phases 7-11 "Green Hills Residential Development" Land off Broken Stone Road/Livesey Branch Road on land within the Gib Lane Masterplan Area Blackburn. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 172 applications of this type. This one was decided in 25 days, 3 weeks quicker than Blackburn with Darwen's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 8 applications across Planning Officer.

92% of amendment 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

Application type
Non-Material Amendment
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
280

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 November 2025
Consultation expiry
9 December 2025
Consultation start
18 November 2025
Consultation end
9 December 2025
Last date for comments
18 November 2025
Target decision date
28 November 2025
Application expires
12 December 2025
Permission expires
9 December 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
24 days

Additional information

Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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.

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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