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Former Roscoe's Farm Bolton Road Westhoughton Bolton BL5 3DX

19781/25Discharge of ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 6 May 2025

Council decision: DeterminedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

DISCHARGE OF CONDITION 2 (PART III) (CONTAMINATED LAND - REMEDIATION SCHEME) ON APPLICATION 11349/21

Received
14 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Westhoughton North & Hunger Hill
  1. Received14 Feb
  2. Validated14 Feb
  3. Consult.10 Mar
  4. Target28 Mar
  5. Decided6 May

Decided in 81 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Former Roscoe's Farm Bolton Road Westhoughton Bolton BL5 3DX. Bolton has handled 467 applications of this type. This one was decided in 81 days, 4 weeks longer than Bolton's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 90 applications across Westhoughton North & Hunger Hill. We hold 281 applications in total for the BL5 postcode area.

99% of conditions 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 3DX
Application type
Discharge of Condition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Westhoughton Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 February 2025
Consultation expiry
10 March 2025
Consultation start
17 February 2025
Consultation end
10 March 2025
Last date for comments
10 March 2025
Target decision date
28 March 2025
Permission expires
6 May 2030

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13764450
Documents
3
Constraints
16

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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