Dean Head House Trice Barn Farm Bacup Old Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RG

2023/0410Existing Certificate of LawfulnessApproved

Lawful development certificate

Approved on 15 November 2023

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Lawful Development Certificate (Existing Use): Construction of a dwelling not in accordance with 2004/0470 for a period of continuous use in excess of 4 years

Received: 1 September 2023
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Rossendale Borough Council
Ward: Bacup
Agent: The Rural Planning Co

ReceivedReceived1 Sep
ValidatedValidated1 Sep
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date6 Oct
DecidedDecided15 Nov

Decided in 75 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Dean Head House Trice Barn Farm Bacup Old Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RG. Rossendale has handled 19 applications of this type. This one was decided in 75 days, 12 days longer than Rossendale's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 18 applications across Bacup. We hold 112 applications in total for the OL13 postcode area.

90% of all applications at Rossendale Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode: OL13 8RG
Application type: Existing Certificate of Lawfulness
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 1 September 2023
Target decision date: 6 October 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent: The Rural Planning Co
Agent address: The Farm Office Millridge Farm Parsons Lane Hartlebury DY11 7YQ

Planning decision

Statutory period: 35 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-12409740
Comments: 0
Documents: 7
Constraints: 2

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

Article 4 direction: Immediate Article 4 Direction for small Houses in Multiple Occupation
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, 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.

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Source: Rossendale

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