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24 Silver Street, Bury, BL9 0DH

69542Lawful Development Certificate proposedRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 25 August 2023

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Lawful development certificate for proposed change of use of upper floors from office space (Class E) to former use as Hotel suites (Class C1). These floors converted to office space in 2015.

Received
11 April 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bury East
  1. Received11 Apr
  2. Validated3 Jul
  3. Consult.28 Aug
  4. Target28 Aug
  5. Decided25 Aug

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 24 Silver Street, Bury, BL9 0DH. Bury has handled 294 applications of this type. This one was decided in 136 days, 11 weeks longer than Bury's typical decision time. The site is in the Bury Town Centre conservation area, with 10 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 88 applications across Bury East. We hold 938 applications in total for the BL9 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
BL9 0DH
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate proposed
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 July 2023
Last date for comments
28 August 2023
Target decision date
28 August 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12012583
Comments
0
Documents
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Bury Town Centre
  • Listed building: Grade II: Former Barclays BankOn or next to this site
  • Article 4 direction: Bury borough HMO
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Bury Town Centre
  • 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.

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.

Source: Bury

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