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Former site of Andrew Textile Industries Ltd, Walshaw Road, Bury, BL8 1LF

66389Reserved mattersApproved

Approved on 26 May 2021

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for reserved matters approval (appearance, landscaping, layout and scale) for the erection of 97 dwellings and associated works including the demolition of existing buildings, the layout out of roads, parking, footways and landscaping

Received
11 January 2021
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
9
Ward
Bury West - Elton
  1. Received11 Jan
  2. Validated15 Jan
  3. Consult.9 Feb
  4. Target16 Apr
  5. Decided26 May

Decided in 131 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Former site of Andrew Textile Industries Ltd, Walshaw Road, Bury, BL8 1LF. Bury has handled 294 applications of this type. This one was decided in 135 days, 11 weeks longer than Bury's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 39 applications across Bury West - Elton. We hold 887 applications in total for the BL8 postcode area.

89% of outline 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 1LF
Application type
Reserved matters
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
97

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 January 2021
Consultation expiry
9 February 2021
Consultation start
18 January 2021
Consultation end
9 February 2021
Neighbour consultation start
18 May 2021
Neighbour consultation end
9 February 2021
Last date for comments
16 April 2021
Target decision date
16 April 2021
Committee meeting
25 May 2021

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Helen Leach
Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
21 January 2021
Site notice start
21 January 2021

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-09351712
Documents
92
Constraints
26

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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

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© 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2021
    11 Jan

    Application for reserved matters approval (appearance, landscaping, layout and scale) for the erection of 97…

    This applicationApprovedReserved matters66389
  2. 2021
    6 Jan

    Non-material amendment following grant of planning permission 64128 to the position of the currently approved…

    ApprovedNon-material amendmentFiled alongside66376

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