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37 St Matthew Street Burnley Lancashire BB11 4LF

CEU/2025/0539Cert of Lawful Use/ - Existing 191Approved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 18 November 2025

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 for use of a dwelling as a House in Multiple Occupation (Class C4).

Received
17 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Trinity
  1. Received17 Sep
  2. Validated18 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target13 Nov
  5. Decided18 Nov

Decided in 61 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 37 St Matthew Street Burnley Lancashire BB11 4LF. Burnley has handled 30 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days longer than Burnley's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 17 applications across Trinity. We hold 164 applications in total for the BB11 postcode area.

82% of amendment 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
BB11 4LF
Application type
Cert of Lawful Use/ - Existing 191
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Not Within A Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 September 2025
Target decision date
13 November 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: Article 4 Direction: Houses in Multiple Occupation
  • 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, 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: Burnley

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