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Unit 5 Burnden Park Manchester Road Bolton BL3 2NE

00318/26Certificate of Lawfulness ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 17 April 2026

Council decision: Permitted Development

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

CERTIFICATE OF LAWFULNESS (S191) FOR EXISTING USE OF UNIT 5 FOR CLASS E(a) or (b) OR AS SUI GENERIS USE COMPRISING OF COFFEE SHOP, RESTAURANT AND DRIVE THRU WITH ALTERATIONS TO CAR PARKING AND LANDSCAPING, PARTIAL DEMOLITION OF BUILDING INCLUDING GLAZING AREAS, RECLADDING WITH INSTALLATION OF 1 NO. DRIVE THRU WINDOW.

Received
20 February 2026
Ward
Great Lever
  1. Received20 Feb
  2. Validated23 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target6 Apr
  5. Decided17 Apr

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Unit 5 Burnden Park Manchester Road Bolton BL3 2NE. Bolton has handled 194 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 67 applications across Great Lever. We hold 1,691 applications in total for the BL3 postcode area.

75% of amendment applications at Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BL3 2NE
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness Existing
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 February 2026
Target decision date
6 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Williams Gallagher
Agent address
Somerset House 37 Temple Street Birmingham B2 5DP

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14722733
Documents
11
Constraints
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: Land adjacent 235 Manchester Road, Bolton, BL3 2QPRegister site at or near this address
  • 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, 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 and heritage coasts.

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: Bolton

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