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1 New Wellington Street and 39 New Chapel Street Blackburn

10/26/0068Full Planning ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 19 March 2026

Council decision: PermitsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of first floor of ! New Wellington Street from storage and staff use to a self -contained apartment (Use Class C3), erection of single storey rear extension to provide storage and staff use, replacement of existing shop at 39 New Chapel Street with internal ground floor re-modelling

Received
26 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Mill Hill & Moorgate
  1. Received26 Jan
  2. Validated28 Jan
  3. Consult.19 Mar
  4. Target9 Mar
  5. Decided19 Mar

Decided in 50 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a single storey rear extension at 1 New Wellington Street and 39 New Chapel Street Blackburn. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 1,326 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 3 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 4 applications across Mill Hill & Moorgate.

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

Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Blackburn

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 January 2026
Consultation expiry
19 March 2026
Consultation start
30 January 2026
Consultation end
19 March 2026
Last date for comments
20 February 2026
Target decision date
9 March 2026
Application expires
23 March 2026
Permission expires
19 March 2029

Planning decision

Statutory period
54 days

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (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.

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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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