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Whalley Abbey The Sands Whalley BB7 9SS

36873Alter or Extend a Listed BuildingApproved
Listed building consent

Approved on 7 January 2025

Council decision: APPROVED WITH CONDITIONS

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Listed Building Consent for proposed new fire-rated boiler enclosure to the West Wing for new boilers; changing a vent in a window opening; changing of a window opening into a vent; replacement of West Wing extract flue with a plume to redirect the boiler ventilation away from the historic stonework; East Wing boiler room to have flood barrier installed as previously approved in 3/2017/0087; East Wing extract flue to be replaced with a plume to redirect the boiler ventilation away from historic stonework and inhabited rooms.

Received
1 October 2024
  1. Received1 Oct
  2. Validated30 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided7 Jan

Decided in 69 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application for window replacement at Whalley Abbey The Sands Whalley BB7 9SS. Ribble Valley has handled 149 applications of this type. This one was decided in 98 days, 6 weeks longer than Ribble Valley's typical decision time. The site is in the Whalley conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,415 applications in total for the BB7 postcode area.

89% of heritage 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 9SS
Application type
Alter or Extend a Listed Building
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 October 2024
Committee meeting
6 January 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Patrick Wilson Architects 23 Library Street Wigan WN1 1NN

Additional information

Documents
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (18)

flood storage areas, green belt, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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: Ribble Valley

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