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Early Start Nursery, Tennyson Avenue, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, BB5 4QZ

11/26/0059Certificate Lawful Use - ExistingApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 16 April 2026

Council decision: APPROVED NO CONDITIONS

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate (as existing) for the use of a building and associated land as a nursery school and before/after school childcare club (Class E(f))

Received
11 February 2026
  1. Received11 Feb
  2. Validated11 Feb
  3. Consult.6 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided16 Apr

Decided in 64 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Early Start Nursery, Tennyson Avenue, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, BB5 4QZ. Hyndburn has handled 67 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 2 weeks longer than Hyndburn's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,175 applications in total for the BB5 postcode area.

89% of amendment 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

Postcode
BB5 4QZ
Application type
Certificate Lawful Use - Existing
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 February 2026
Consultation expiry
6 February 2026
Consultation end
6 February 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
Marcus Shingler

Additional information

Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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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