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42 Bertha Street Bolton BL1 8AH

20423/25Certificate of Lawfulness ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 11 July 2025

Council decision: Not developmentDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

CERTIFICATE OF LAWFUL DEVELOPMENT (SECTION 192) FOR USE OF DWELLINGHOUSE (USE CLASS C3(a)) TO PROVIDE A RESIDENTIAL CARE ACCOMMODATION (USE CLASS C2) FOR 1 YOUNG PERSON

Received
28 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Halliwell
  1. Received28 May
  2. Validated28 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target9 Jul
  5. Decided11 Jul

Decided in 44 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a new dwelling at 42 Bertha Street Bolton BL1 8AH. Bolton has handled 517 applications of this type. This one was decided in 44 days, 12 days quicker 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.

79% of outline 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 8AH
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness Proposed
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 May 2025
Target decision date
9 July 2025
Permission expires
11 July 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent
The Appeals Guy
Architect profile
THE APPEALS GUY LIMITED
Agent address
Bartle House 9 Oxford Court Manchester M22WQ United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14052040
Documents
7
Constraints
1

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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