243 Highfield Road Bolton BL4 0NX

19468/24Advertisement ConsentApproved

Approved on 4 April 2025

Council decision: Approve subject to conditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

SITING OF 3 NO. BACK ILLUMINATED SIGNS AT FRONT.

Received: 13 December 2024
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council
Ward: Farnworth South
Agent: Create It Studio Architects

ReceivedReceived13 Dec
ValidatedValidated6 Jan
Consult.Consultation28 Jan
TargetTarget Date30 Mar
DecidedDecided4 Apr

Decided in 88 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an advertising consent application at 243 Highfield Road Bolton BL4 0NX. Bolton has handled 251 applications of this type. This one was decided in 112 days, 8 weeks longer than Bolton's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 270 applications in total for the BL4 postcode area.

83% of advertising 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: BL4 0NX
Application type: Advertisement Consent
Scale / size: Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated: 6 January 2025
Consultation expiry: 28 January 2025
Consultation start: 7 January 2025
Consultation end: 28 January 2025
Last date for comments: 28 January 2025
Target decision date: 30 March 2025
Permission expires: 4 April 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent: Create It Studio Architects
Agent address: 3 Stevenson Square Manchester M1 1DN

Planning decision

Statutory period: 83 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-12093757
Documents: 16
Constraints: 1

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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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.

Source: Bolton

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