5 Queens Road Chorley
Approved on 10 March 2025
Council decision: Grant Certificate of LawfulnessDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Application for a certificate of lawfulness for internal alterations to 18 apartments contained within the five-storey block and confirmation of its continued Class C3 use
- Received
- 10 December 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Chorley Borough Council
- Ward
- Chorley North West
- Agent
- Andrew Muir Town Planning Limited
- ReceivedReceived10 Dec
- ValidatedValidated15 Jan
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date12 Mar
- DecidedDecided10 Mar
Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at 5 Queens Road Chorley. Chorley has handled 433 applications of this type. This one was decided in 90 days, 5 weeks longer than Chorley's typical decision time. The site is in 5 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 44 applications across Chorley North West.
77% of outline applications at Chorley Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Application type
- Certificate of Lawfulness (Proposed Use)
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Number of dwellings
- 18
- Parish
- Chorley
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 15 January 2025
- Target decision date
- 12 March 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Andrew Muir Town Planning Limited
- Agent address
- 55 Severn Drive Guisborough North Yorkshire TS14 8AT
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and 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.
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