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Land at Whitebirk Industrial Estate and adjacent ACME House Philips Road Blackburn BB1 5RL

10/26/0101Prior Approval - TelecommunicationsApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 25 March 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval is GivenDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Removal of the existing 17.5m monopole with 6no antennas, 12 ericsson radio systems together with removal of existing equipment cabin and replace with proposed 22.5m monopole with new headframe supporting 6no antennas, 1no 0.3m transmission dish along with 2no equipment cabinets, 1no electric meter cabinet on a concrete base with ancillary development of 18no ericsson radio systems

Received
5 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Little Harwood & Whitebirk
  1. Received5 Feb
  2. Validated10 Feb
  3. Consult.25 Mar
  4. Target5 Mar
  5. Decided25 Mar

Decided in 43 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a telecoms application at Land at Whitebirk Industrial Estate and adjacent ACME House Philips Road Blackburn BB1 5RL. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 5 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 24 applications across Little Harwood & Whitebirk. We hold 656 applications in total for the BB1 postcode area.

95% of all 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
BB1 5RL
Application type
Prior Approval - Telecommunications
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Blackburn

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 February 2026
Consultation expiry
25 March 2026
Consultation start
11 February 2026
Consultation end
25 March 2026
Last date for comments
4 March 2026
Target decision date
5 March 2026
Application expires
2 April 2026
Permission expires
25 March 2029

Planning decision

Statutory period
51 days

Additional information

Documents
28

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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.

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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