20 Railway Road Bolton BL6 5WL
Approved on 23 April 2026
Council decision: Approve subject to conditions1 condition
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Proposal
RETROSPECTIVE APPLICATION FOR ERECTION OF OUTBUILDING.
- Received
- 25 February 2026
- Ward
- Horwich South & Blackrod
- Agent
- Baltik Architecture
- ReceivedReceived25 Feb
- ValidatedValidated4 Mar
- Consult.Consultation25 Mar
- TargetTarget Date15 Apr
- DecidedDecided23 Apr
Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for an outbuilding at 20 Railway Road Bolton BL6 5WL. Bolton has handled 3,200 applications of this type. This one was decided in 57 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 85 applications across Horwich South & Blackrod. We hold 398 applications in total for the BL6 postcode area.
81% of full 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
- BL6 5WL
- Application type
- Householder Application for pl. permissi
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Horwich Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 4 March 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 25 March 2026
- Consultation start
- 4 March 2026
- Consultation end
- 25 March 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 4 March 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 25 March 2026
- Last date for comments
- 25 March 2026
- Target decision date
- 15 April 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Baltik Architecture
- Architect profile
- BALTIK ARCHITECTURE LTD
- Agent address
- Studio M 49 Jamaica Street Liverpool L1 0AH
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14733908
- Documents
- 8
- Constraints
- 13
Site constraints
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.
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