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Moorthorpe Cottage Park Road Darwen BB3 2LQ

10/26/0010Application to undertake works to protected treesApproved

Approved on 16 January 2026

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

T1 (Lime) - Remove overhangs over overhead power lines and remove any deadwood and stub cuts T2 (Beech) - Remove long basal stem and limb above, heavily leaning towards power lines. T3 (Pine) - Fell T4 (Horse Chestnut) - Fell T5 (Sycamore) - Fell T6 (Lime) - Fell T7 (Sycamore) - Remove upright stem T8 (Oak) - Remove 2no. branches overhanging power line T9 (Oak) - Remove limb overhanging power line and remove snapped out limb G1 (Sycamore, Lime, Beech) - Crown raise and remove immediate overhangs above power line

Received
6 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
West Pennine, Whitehall
  1. Received6 Jan
  2. Validated16 Jan
  3. Consult.16 Jan
  4. Target27 Feb
  5. Decided16 Jan

Decided in 0 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at Moorthorpe Cottage Park Road Darwen BB3 2LQ. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 236 applications of this type. This one was decided in 10 days, 6 weeks quicker than Blackburn with Darwen's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 4 applications across West Pennine, Whitehall. We hold 605 applications in total for the BB3 postcode area.

97% of trees 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 2LQ
Application type
Application to undertake works to protected trees
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Darwen

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 January 2026
Consultation expiry
16 January 2026
Consultation end
16 January 2026
Last date for comments
6 January 2026
Target decision date
27 February 2026
Application expires
3 March 2026
Permission expires
16 January 2029

Planning decision

Statutory period
46 days

Additional information

Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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, 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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