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43 New Court Drive Bolton BL7 9XA

20242/25Householder Application for pl. permissiApproved
Householder

Approved on 4 July 2025

Council decision: Approve subject to conditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

ERECTION OF A SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSION AT THE FRONT, CONVERSION OF THE EXISTING GARAGE TO A HABITABLE ROOM WITH A PITCHED ROOF, TOGETHER WITH THE RAISING OF THE GARAGE WALL AND THE ERECTION OF A SINGLE-STOREY EXTENSION AT THE REAR WITH THE FORMATION OF A BALCONY.

Received
25 April 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bromley Cross
  1. Received25 Apr
  2. Validated14 May
  3. Consult.5 Jun
  4. Target25 Jun
  5. Decided4 Jul

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a garage at 43 New Court Drive Bolton BL7 9XA. Bolton has handled 3,200 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 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 108 applications across Bromley Cross. We hold 1,957 applications in total for the BL7 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
BL7 9XA
Application type
Householder Application for pl. permissi
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Not Applicable

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 May 2025
Consultation expiry
5 June 2025
Consultation start
15 May 2025
Consultation end
5 June 2025
Neighbour consultation start
15 May 2025
Neighbour consultation end
5 June 2025
Last date for comments
5 June 2025
Target decision date
25 June 2025
Permission expires
4 July 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent address
203 Bury New Road Bolton BL2 6QQ

Planning decision

Case officer
Neve Berriman
Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Documents
7
Constraints
12

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.

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.

Source: Bolton

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