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Rayhome House, Walshaw Road, Bury, BL8 1PR

63857FullApproved

Approved on 13 November 2019

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsPlanning committee

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

Proposal

Change of use of existing business and general industry use (Class B1 & B2) to mixed use leisure (Class D2), cafe (Class A3), partial retention of office use (Class B1) and pedestrian access and parking works.

Received
26 February 2019
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
15
Ward
Tottington
Agent
JPE Consultancy Limited
  1. Received26 Feb
  2. Validated3 Apr
  3. Consult.25 Apr
  4. Target29 May
  5. Decided13 Nov

Decided in 224 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Rayhome House, Walshaw Road, Bury, BL8 1PR. Bury has handled 1,460 applications of this type. This one was decided in 260 days, 29 weeks longer than Bury's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 29 applications across Tottington. We hold 887 applications in total for the BL8 postcode area.

89% of full applications at Bury Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BL8 1PR
Application type
Full
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 April 2019
Consultation expiry
25 April 2019
Consultation end
25 April 2019
Neighbour consultation start
11 November 2019
Neighbour consultation end
25 April 2019
Last date for comments
29 May 2019
Target decision date
29 May 2019
Committee meeting
12 November 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent
JPE Consultancy Limited
Architect profile
JPE CONSULTANCY LTD
Agent address
9 Woodend Drive, Stalybridge, SK15 2SF

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
11 April 2019
Site notice start
5 April 2019

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-07659442
Documents
45
Constraints
13

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: Bury borough HMO
  • 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.

© 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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