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Hanover House Hanover Street Bolton BL1 4TG

14863/22Prior Approval Offices to DwellingsApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 17 January 2023

Council decision: Prior Approval Granted with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

PRIOR APPROVAL APPLICATION TO CHANGE THE USE OF AN EXISTING SINGLE STOREY OFFICE BUILDING (USE CLASS E) INTO 5 No. 1 BEDROOMED APARTMENTS (USE CLASS C3)

Received
22 October 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Halliwell
Agent
Create It Studio Architects
  1. Received22 Oct
  2. Validated24 Oct
  3. Consult.14 Nov
  4. Target12 Jan
  5. Decided17 Jan

Decided in 85 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Hanover House Hanover Street Bolton BL1 4TG. Bolton has handled 517 applications of this type. This one was decided in 87 days, 4 weeks longer than Bolton's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 46 applications across Halliwell. We hold 1,099 applications in total for the BL1 postcode area.

79% of outline 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
BL1 4TG
Application type
Prior Approval Offices to Dwellings
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 October 2022
Consultation expiry
10 January 2023
Consultation start
24 October 2022
Consultation end
14 November 2022
Neighbour consultation start
24 October 2022
Neighbour consultation end
14 November 2022
Last date for comments
10 January 2023
Target decision date
12 January 2023
Permission expires
17 January 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Create It Studio Architects
Agent address
Universal Square Devonshire Street North Manchester United Kingdom M12 6JH

Planning decision

Statutory period
80 days

Publicity

Site notice end
10 January 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11639458
Documents
12
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: BIZ New Holder Street, Bolton, BL1 4SNRegister 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.

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