Ground Floor 132 - 134 Blackburn Road Bolton BL1 8DW
Approved on 29 April 2024
Council decision: Approve subject to conditionsDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
CHANGE OF USE FROM VACANT SHOP INTO DRY CLEANERS AND LAUNDERETTE (SUI GENERIS)
- Received
- 24 February 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Halliwell
- Agent
- Studio Charrette
- ReceivedReceived24 Feb
- ValidatedValidated4 Mar
- Consult.Consultation25 Mar
- TargetTarget Date15 Apr
- DecidedDecided29 Apr
Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Ground Floor 132 - 134 Blackburn Road Bolton BL1 8DW. Bolton has handled 3,200 applications of this type. This one was decided in 65 days, 9 days 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.
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
- BL1 8DW
- Application type
- Full Planning Permission
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 4 March 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 25 March 2024
- Consultation start
- 4 March 2024
- Consultation end
- 25 March 2024
- Neighbour consultation start
- 4 March 2024
- Neighbour consultation end
- 25 March 2024
- Last date for comments
- 25 March 2024
- Target decision date
- 15 April 2024
- Permission expires
- 29 April 2027
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Studio Charrette
- Agent address
- 5 Hopwood Close London SW17 0AG United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 42 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-12833004
- Documents
- 7
- Constraints
- 7
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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.
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