17 Cliff Street, Padiham, BB12 8PN

PA/2026/0327Change of useApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 14 September 2026

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Retrospective change of use of land to residential garden area

Submitted: 23 July 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Burnley Borough Council
Ward: Gawthorpe

ReceivedSubmitted23 Jul
ValidatedValidated23 Jul
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date19 Aug
DecidedDecided14 Sep

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 17 CLIFF STREET, PADIHAM, BB12 8PN. Burnley has handled 30 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker than Burnley's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 14 applications across Gawthorpe. 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 8PN
Application type: Change of use
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Padiham

Planning application dates

Date validated: 23 July 2026
Target decision date: 19 August 2026
Application expires: 17 September 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Documents: 4

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

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.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Burnley

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