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Unit 3 Nile Street, Bolton, BL3 6BW

86190/11Certificate of Proposed Lawful UseApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 23 May 2011

Council decision: Not developmentDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

CERTIFICATE OF LAWFUL DEVELOPMENT FOR PROPOSED USE OF PREMISES AS MOT TESTING BAY

Received
12 May 2011
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Great Lever
  1. Received12 May
  2. Validated12 May
  3. Consult.3 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided23 May

Decided in 11 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at UNIT 3 NILE STREET, BOLTON, BL3 6BW. Bolton has handled 517 applications of this type. This one was decided in 11 days, 6 weeks quicker than Bolton's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 68 applications across Great Lever. We hold 1,691 applications in total for the BL3 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
BL3 6BW
Application type
Certificate of Proposed Lawful Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 May 2011
Consultation expiry
3 June 2011
Consultation end
3 June 2011
Neighbour consultation end
3 June 2011
Last date for comments
7 July 2011
Application expires
7 July 2011

Applicant and agent

Agent address
54 Lower White Road, Quinton, Birmingham, West Midlands, B43 2RU

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
3 June 2011
Site notice end
3 June 2011

Additional information

Documents
1
Constraints
5

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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