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The Old Vicarage Greens Arms Road Turton Bolton BL7 0NB

10/26/0061Application to undertake works to protected treesApproved

Approved on 2 February 2026

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Tree pruning on behalf of Openreach as part of their new overhead network build. Work passes through 3 TPO areas and cutting is needed on oak, silver birch, scots pine, sycamore and willow trees. Openreach require a line of sight through the trees between telecoms poles, clearance carried out will be approx. 0.5m around the circumference of the cable. Excessive cutting such as crown lift or reduction are not required.

Received
22 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
West Pennine
  1. Received22 Jan
  2. Validated2 Feb
  3. Consult.2 Feb
  4. Target16 Mar
  5. Decided2 Feb

Decided in 0 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a tree application at The Old Vicarage Greens Arms Road Turton Bolton BL7 0NB. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 236 applications of this type. This one was decided in 11 days, 5 weeks quicker than Blackburn with Darwen's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 78 applications across West Pennine. We hold 1,957 applications in total for the BL7 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
BL7 0NB
Application type
Application to undertake works to protected trees
Scale / size
Small
Parish
North Turton

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 February 2026
Consultation expiry
2 February 2026
Consultation end
2 February 2026
Last date for comments
22 January 2026
Target decision date
16 March 2026
Application expires
19 March 2026
Permission expires
2 February 2029

Planning decision

Statutory period
45 days

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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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