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St Barnabas & St Pauls School Oakenhurst Rd Blackburn BB2 1SN

10/26/0064Full Planning Application (Regulation 3)Approved
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Approved on 20 March 2026

Council decision: PermitsPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed change of use of vacant land to provide additional playground area together with the installation of new fencing & pedestrian & vehicular gates, 2.4m high

Received
22 January 2026
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Wensley Fold
  1. Received22 Jan
  2. Validated2 Feb
  3. Consult.20 Mar
  4. Target16 Mar
  5. Decided20 Mar

Decided in 46 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at St Barnabas & St Pauls School Oakenhurst Rd Blackburn BB2 1SN. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 1,326 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days, 8 days longer than Blackburn with Darwen's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 14 applications across Wensley Fold. We hold 565 applications in total for the BB2 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
BB2 1SN
Application type
Full Planning Application (Regulation 3)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Blackburn

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 February 2026
Consultation expiry
20 March 2026
Consultation start
3 February 2026
Consultation end
20 March 2026
Last date for comments
6 March 2026
Target decision date
16 March 2026
Committee meeting
19 March 2026
Application expires
30 March 2026
Permission expires
20 March 2029

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 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site

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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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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