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382 Hindley Road Westhoughton Bolton BL5 2DT

16387/23Certificate of Lawfulness ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 2 November 2023

Council decision: Approve subject to conditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

CERTIFICATE OF LAWFUL DEVELOPMENT (S192) FOR THE PROPOSED USE OF THE EXISTING DWELLING AS A CHILDREN'S HOME FOR A MAXIMUM OF FOUR CHILDREN AND TWO MEMBERS OF STAFF.

Received
12 July 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Westhoughton South
  1. Received12 Jul
  2. Validated12 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target22 Oct
  5. Decided2 Nov

Decided in 113 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at 382 Hindley Road Westhoughton Bolton BL5 2DT. Bolton has handled 517 applications of this type. This one was decided in 113 days, 8 weeks longer than Bolton's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 51 applications across Westhoughton South. We hold 281 applications in total for the BL5 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
BL5 2DT
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness Proposed
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Westhoughton Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 July 2023
Target decision date
22 October 2023
Permission expires
2 November 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
102 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12284685
Documents
7
Constraints
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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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