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49 Whalley Road Sabden BB7 9DZ

37636Applications for full consentApproved
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Approved on 26 September 2025

Council decision: APPROVED WITH CONDITIONS

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Division of existing 5 bedroom dwelling at the former presbytery to St Mary's Church to form one 3 bedroom residential dwelling and an additional 1 bedroom residential apartment. Demolition of 2 garages and store outbuilding. Retention of existing ground floor sacristy.

Received
14 July 2025
  1. Received14 Jul
  2. Validated6 Aug
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided26 Sep

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at 49 Whalley Road Sabden BB7 9DZ. Ribble Valley has handled 857 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 3 weeks longer than Ribble Valley's typical decision time. The site is in the Sabden conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,415 applications in total for the BB7 postcode area.

79% of full 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 9DZ
Application type
Applications for full consent
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 August 2025
Committee meeting
26 September 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Sunderland Peacock & Associates Ltd Hazelmere Pimlico Road Clitheroe BB7 2AG

Additional information

Documents
17

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Sabden
  • National Landscape (AONB): Forest Of Bowland

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 (20)

flood storage 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

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© 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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