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Huncoat Lane, Huncoat, Lancashire (Altham Lane / A697 Burnley Road / A56 Accrington Bypass Roundabout)

11/23/0499Screening OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 23 January 2024

Council decision: OBSERVATIONS MADE

Proposal

Request for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Screening Opinion under Regulation 6(1) of Town and Country Planning (EIA) Regulations 2017 for the development of Huncoat Lane, Huncoat.

Received
8 December 2023
  1. Received8 Dec
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.29 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided23 Jan

Decided in 46 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application at Huncoat Lane, Huncoat, Lancashire (Altham Lane / A697 Burnley Road / A56 Accrington Bypass Roundabout). Hyndburn has handled 148 applications of this type. This one was decided in 46 days, 3 days quicker than Hyndburn's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address.

77% of outline applications at Hyndburn Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Validated
8 December 2023
Consultation expiry
29 December 2023
Consultation start
8 December 2023
Consultation end
29 December 2023

Publicity

Site notice start
8 December 2023

Additional information

Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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.

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: Hyndburn

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