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27 Oakley Park Bolton BL1 5XL

16270/23Certificate of Lawfulness ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 22 August 2023

Council decision: Permitted DevelopmentDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

CONVERSION OF GARAGE TO FORM HABITABLE ROOM

Received
25 June 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Heaton, Lostock & Chew Moor
  1. Received25 Jun
  2. Validated25 Jun
  3. Consult.22 Jul
  4. Target6 Aug
  5. Decided22 Aug

Decided in 58 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a garage at 27 Oakley Park Bolton BL1 5XL. Bolton has handled 517 applications of this type. This one was decided in 58 days. The site is in the Chorley New Road conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 205 applications across Heaton, Lostock & Chew Moor. 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 5XL
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness Proposed
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 June 2023
Consultation expiry
26 July 2023
Consultation start
1 July 2023
Consultation end
22 July 2023
Last date for comments
26 July 2023
Target decision date
6 August 2023
Permission expires
22 August 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent address
2 Lathom House Lathom Park Ormskirk L40 5UP

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Last advertised
6 July 2023
Advertisement expiry
26 July 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12263042
Documents
7
Constraints
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Chorley New Road
  • 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, 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

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© 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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2023
    25 Jun

    CONVERSION OF GARAGE TO FORM HABITABLE ROOM

    This applicationApprovedOutline16270/23
  2. 2023
    25 Jun

    ERECTION OF TWO STOREY EXTENSION TO SIDE AND SINGLE STOREY EXTENSION TO FRONT

    ApprovedFull Planning PermissionFiled alongside16271/23

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