136 Churchill Drive Bolton BL3 1PG

19626/25Householder Application for pl. permissiApproved

Householder

Approved on 4 April 2025

Council decision: Approve subject to conditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

ERECTION OF A FRONT AND REAR DORMER TOGETHER WITH A LOFT CONVERSION

Received: 22 January 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council
Ward: Little Lever And Darcy Lever

ReceivedReceived22 Jan
ValidatedValidated22 Jan
Consult.Consultation24 Feb
TargetTarget Date2 Apr
DecidedDecided4 Apr

Decided in 72 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a loft conversion at 136 Churchill Drive Bolton BL3 1PG. Bolton has handled 3,200 applications of this type. This one was decided in 72 days, 2 weeks longer than Bolton's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 56 applications across Little Lever And Darcy Lever. We hold 1,690 applications in total for the BL3 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: BL3 1PG
Application type: Householder Application for pl. permissi
Scale / size: Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated: 22 January 2025
Consultation expiry: 24 February 2025
Neighbour consultation start: 3 February 2025
Neighbour consultation end: 24 February 2025
Last date for comments: 24 February 2025
Target decision date: 2 April 2025
Permission expires: 4 April 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent address: 203 Bury New Road Bolton BL2 6QQ

Planning decision

Statutory period: 70 days

Additional information

Documents: 12
Constraints: 6

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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