150-152 St Jamess Street Burnley Lancashire BB11 1PD
Approved on 6 February 2026
Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Change of use from 1no. Shop (Class E) to 2no. Shops (Class E) at ground floor and 2no. apartments across the first and second floor with associated alterations to shop frontage and creation of bay windows at first and second floor level.
- Received
- 10 July 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Burnley Borough Council
- Ward
- Daneshouse With Stoneyholme
- Agent
- Andrew Hawthorne Architects
- ReceivedReceived10 Jul
- ValidatedValidated3 Dec
- Consult.Consultation31 Dec
- TargetTarget Date20 Feb
- DecidedDecided6 Feb
Decided in 65 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 150-152 St Jamess Street Burnley Lancashire BB11 1PD. Burnley has handled 174 applications of this type. This one was decided in 211 days, 22 weeks longer than Burnley's typical decision time. The site is in the Burnley Town Centre conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 3 applications across Daneshouse With Stoneyholme. We hold 164 applications in total for the BB11 postcode area.
83% of full 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 1PD
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Not Within A Parish
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 3 December 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 5 January 2026
- Consultation end
- 31 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 8 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 29 December 2025
- Last date for comments
- 5 January 2026
- Target decision date
- 20 February 2026
- Permission expires
- 6 February 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Andrew Hawthorne Architects
- Agent address
- Alkincoats Lodge Alkincoats Road Colne BB8 9QQ United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 79 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 12 December 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 5 January 2026
- Site notice start
- 10 December 2025
- Site notice end
- 3 January 2026
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)
- Conservation area: Burnley Town Centre
- Article 4 direction: Article 4 Direction: Houses in Multiple Occupation
Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (20)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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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