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Acorn Business Centre, Fountain Street North, Bury, BL9 7AN

70688Prior Approval Offices to DwellingsApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 11 July 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval Required and GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Prior Approval for proposed change of use of first and second floor from offices (Class E) to 19 no. flats (Class C3) - Subdivision of the existing ground floor to form two dedicated access points for the tenants to access the apartments directly from Fountain Street North.

Received
18 April 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bury East
Agent
Manchester Building Design Ltd
  1. Received18 Apr
  2. Validated25 Apr
  3. Consult.17 May
  4. Target20 Jun
  5. Decided11 Jul

Decided in 442 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Acorn Business Centre, Fountain Street North, Bury, BL9 7AN. Bury has handled 294 applications of this type. This one was decided in 449 days, 56 weeks longer than Bury's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 88 applications across Bury East. We hold 937 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 7AN
Application type
Prior Approval Offices to Dwellings
Scale / size
Medium
Number of dwellings
19

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 April 2024
Consultation expiry
17 May 2024
Consultation end
17 May 2024
Neighbour consultation start
26 April 2024
Neighbour consultation end
17 May 2024
Last date for comments
20 June 2024
Target decision date
20 June 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Manchester Building Design Ltd
Architect profile
MANCHESTER BUILDING DESIGN LTD
Agent address
8 Gas Street, Hollingworth, Hyde, SK14 8JD

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12977703
Comments
0

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
  • Brownfield land register: Acorn Business Centre, Fountain Street North, Bury, BL9 7ANRegister site at or near this address
  • 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 (21)

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 and heritage coasts.

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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