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Land at Colenso Road Blackburn BB1 8DR

10/26/0117Permission in PrincipleApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 18 March 2026

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Removal of garages and residential development with up to 4 new dwellings

Received
12 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Shear Brow & Corporation Park
  1. Received12 Feb
  2. Validated16 Feb
  3. Consult.18 Mar
  4. Target27 Feb
  5. Decided18 Mar

Decided in 30 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land at Colenso Road Blackburn BB1 8DR. Blackburn with Darwen has handled 177 applications of this type. This one was decided in 34 days, 2 weeks quicker than Blackburn with Darwen's typical decision time. The site is in the Corporation Park conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 17 applications across Shear Brow & Corporation Park. We hold 656 applications in total for the BB1 postcode area.

88% of outline 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 8DR
Application type
Permission in Principle
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Blackburn

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 February 2026
Consultation expiry
18 March 2026
Consultation start
16 February 2026
Consultation end
18 March 2026
Last date for comments
9 March 2026
Target decision date
27 February 2026
Application expires
20 March 2026
Permission expires
18 March 2029

Planning decision

Statutory period
32 days

Additional information

Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Corporation Park
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Corporation Park Blackburn
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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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