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Astley House Albert Street Burnley Lancashire BB11 3DE

PAD/2024/0417Prior Approval - A1, A2, Sui Gen to ResRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 16 September 2024

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from commercial (Use Class E) to 30 flats (Use Class C3)

Received
9 August 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bank Hall
Agent
Avalon Town Planning Ltd
  1. Received9 Aug
  2. Validated10 Aug
  3. Consult.6 Sep
  4. Target6 Oct
  5. Decided16 Sep

Decided in 37 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Astley House Albert Street Burnley Lancashire BB11 3DE. Burnley has handled 69 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 3 weeks quicker than Burnley's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 6 applications across Bank Hall. We hold 164 applications in total for the BB11 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
BB11 3DE
Application type
Prior Approval - A1, A2, Sui Gen to Res
Scale / size
Medium
Number of dwellings
30
Parish
Not Within A Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 August 2024
Consultation expiry
13 September 2024
Consultation start
15 August 2024
Consultation end
6 September 2024
Neighbour consultation start
15 August 2024
Neighbour consultation end
6 September 2024
Last date for comments
13 September 2024
Target decision date
6 October 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Avalon Town Planning Ltd
Agent address
Suite 4a, Ribble Court, 1 Mead Way Shuttleworth Mead Business Park Padiham BURNLEY BB127NG

Planning decision

Statutory period
57 days

Publicity

Site notice start
22 August 2024
Site notice end
13 September 2024

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
21

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: CanalsidePart of the site
  • Article 4 direction: Article 4 Direction: Houses in Multiple Occupation
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Canalside, BurnleyPart of the site
  • 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 (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.

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