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Knowles Farm Blackburn Road Withnell Chorley PR6 8BJ

25/00902/PNOTPrior NotificationApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 7 November 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval Not required (COU)Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior Notification of change of use of agricultural barn to include commercial use under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class R of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015

Received
23 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Chorley North East
  1. Received23 Sep
  2. Validated23 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target20 Oct
  5. Decided7 Nov

Decided in 45 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Knowles Farm Blackburn Road Withnell Chorley PR6 8BJ. Chorley has handled 433 applications of this type. This one was decided in 45 days, 11 days quicker than Chorley's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 90 applications across Chorley North East. We hold 746 applications in total for the PR6 postcode area.

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

Postcode
PR6 8BJ
Application type
Prior Notification
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Withnell

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 September 2025
Target decision date
20 October 2025

Planning decision

Statutory period
27 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
2
Constraints
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Chorley
  • 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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

Source: Chorley

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