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Thornton Hall Farm Skipton Road Barnoldswick Lancashire BD23 3TJ

25/0059/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 9 May 2025

Council decision: Approved with ConditionsPlanning committee

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

Full: Erection of 3 no. polytunnels and the siting of 2 no. shipping containers for mixed use as a Halloween Venue, visitor farm and educational and agricultural use.

Received
28 January 2025
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
2
Ward
Earby & Coates
Agent
Gary Hoerty Associates
  1. Received28 Jan
  2. Validated6 Feb
  3. Consult.1 Apr
  4. Target28 Apr
  5. Decided9 May

Decided in 92 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a new dwelling at Thornton Hall Farm Skipton Road Barnoldswick Lancashire BD23 3TJ. Pendle has handled 1,312 applications of this type. This one was decided in 101 days, 7 weeks longer than Pendle's typical decision time. There have been 5 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 48 applications across Earby & Coates. We hold 5,308 applications in total for the BD23 postcode area.

85% of full applications at Pendle Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BD23 3TJ
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Earby Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 February 2025
Consultation expiry
1 April 2025
Consultation start
25 March 2025
Consultation end
1 April 2025
Neighbour consultation start
6 February 2025
Neighbour consultation end
27 February 2025
Last date for comments
1 April 2025
Target decision date
28 April 2025
Committee meeting
6 May 2025
Permission expires
9 May 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Gary Hoerty Associates
Agent address
Suite 9 Grindleton Business Centre The Spinney, Grindleton Clitheroe BB7 4DH United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
81 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13644445
Documents
28
Constraints
12

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    15 Sep

    Approval of Details Reserved by Condition: Discharge Condition 3 (Landscaping Scheme) and Condition 4…

    Conditions DischargedDischarge of conditions25/0593/CND
  2. 2025
    28 Jan

    Full: Erection of 3 no. polytunnels and the siting of 2 no. shipping containers for mixed use as a Halloween…

    This applicationApprovedFull25/0059/FUL

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