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44 King Street Bolton BL5 3AX

21568/25Certificate of Lawfulness ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 29 January 2026

Council decision: Permitted DevelopmentDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

CERTIFICATE OF LAWFULNESS PROPOSED (S192) FOR THE ERECTION OF A SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION.

Received
17 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Westhoughton North & Hunger Hill
  1. Received17 Dec
  2. Validated17 Dec
  3. Consult.
  4. Target28 Jan
  5. Decided29 Jan

Decided in 43 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a single storey rear extension at 44 King Street Bolton BL5 3AX. Bolton has handled 517 applications of this type. This one was decided in 43 days, 13 days quicker 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.

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
BL5 3AX
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Westhoughton Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 December 2025
Target decision date
28 January 2026
Permission expires
29 January 2031

Applicant and agent

Agent
agfplans
Agent address
121 park road Westhoughton Bolton BL5 3DB

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14571442
Documents
9
Constraints
9

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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