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Greendale Restaurant Downham Road Chatburn BB7 4DL

28862Certificate of Lawfulness - ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 18 December 2017

Council decision: APPROVED NO CONDITIONS

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of use of first floor rooms over the existing cafe to four en-suite letting bedrooms for bed and breakfast use.

Received
11 September 2017
Ward
CHATBURN
  1. Received11 Sep
  2. Validated4 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided18 Dec

Decided in 75 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Greendale Restaurant Downham Road Chatburn BB7 4DL. Ribble Valley has handled 137 applications of this type. This one was decided in 98 days, 6 weeks longer than Ribble Valley's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,415 applications in total for the BB7 postcode area.

82% of outline applications at Ribble Valley Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
BB7 4DL
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Chatburn

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 October 2017
Committee meeting
20 November 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Peter Hitchen Architects Marathon House The Sidings Business Park Whalley Clitheroe BB7 9SE

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • National Landscape (AONB): Forest Of Bowland
  • 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, 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, 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: Ribble Valley

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