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347 Briercliffe Road Burnley Lancashire BB10 1TX

CEA/2023/0422Cert of Lawful Use/ - Proposed 192Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 11 August 2023

Council decision: Lawful Dev Cert issuedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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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 Lawfulness of Proposed Use for the use of an existing residential property (Class C3(a)) as a children's home for two children under Class C2 of the Use Classes Order 1987 (as amended).

Received
19 July 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Lanehead
  1. Received19 Jul
  2. Validated19 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target13 Sep
  5. Decided11 Aug

Decided in 23 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at 347 Briercliffe Road Burnley Lancashire BB10 1TX. Burnley has handled 69 applications of this type. This one was decided in 23 days, 5 weeks quicker than Burnley's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 18 applications across Lanehead. We hold 217 applications in total for the BB10 postcode area.

70% of outline applications at Burnley Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BB10 1TX
Application type
Cert of Lawful Use/ - Proposed 192
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Not Within A Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 July 2023
Target decision date
13 September 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
108 Whalley Range Blackburn BB1 6NL United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: Former Library, Barbon Street, Briercliffe RoadRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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 and heritage coasts.

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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