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76 Wellfield Drive Burnley Lancashire BB12 0HZ

COU/2025/0098Change of UseRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 14 April 2025

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from a residential dwelling (Class C3) to a family assessment centre (Class C2).

Received
14 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Whittlefield With Ightenhill
  1. Received14 Feb
  2. Validated21 Feb
  3. Consult.18 Mar
  4. Target5 Apr
  5. Decided14 Apr

Decided in 52 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 76 Wellfield Drive Burnley Lancashire BB12 0HZ. Burnley has handled 30 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 3 days longer than Burnley's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 1 application across Whittlefield With Ightenhill. We hold 224 applications in total for the BB12 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
BB12 0HZ
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Not Within A Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 February 2025
Consultation expiry
18 March 2025
Consultation start
25 February 2025
Consultation end
18 March 2025
Neighbour consultation start
25 February 2025
Neighbour consultation end
18 March 2025
Last date for comments
18 March 2025
Target decision date
5 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
40-42 Carr Road Nelson Lancashire BB9 7SP

Planning decision

Statutory period
43 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
13
Constraints
2

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: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (23)

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, 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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