4 Nicholas Street Burnley BB11 2AQ
Refused on 21 March 2025
Council decision: Prior Approval refusedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Conversion of offices to dwelling houses.
- Received
- 4 February 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Burnley Borough Council
- Ward
- Daneshouse With Stoneyholme
- Agent
- Kirkwells Limited
- ReceivedReceived4 Feb
- ValidatedValidated5 Feb
- Consult.Consultation5 Mar
- TargetTarget Date3 Apr
- DecidedDecided21 Mar
Decided in 44 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at 4 Nicholas Street Burnley BB11 2AQ. Burnley has handled 69 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 11 days quicker than Burnley's typical decision time. The site is in the Burnley Town Centre conservation area, with 16 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.
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 2AQ
- Application type
- Prior Approval - A1, A2, Sui Gen to Res
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Not Within A Parish
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 5 February 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 5 March 2025
- Consultation start
- 12 February 2025
- Consultation end
- 5 March 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 12 February 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 5 March 2025
- Last date for comments
- 5 March 2025
- Target decision date
- 3 April 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Kirkwells Limited
- Architect profile
- KIRKWELLS LIMITED
- Agent address
- Suite 2 Lancs Digital Tech Centre Bancroft Road Burnley BB10 2TP
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 57 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Burnley Town Centre
- 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 (19)
flood storage areas, 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.
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