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17 Hammerton Green Bacup Lancashire OL13 9BD

2025/0034/TCAWorks to Trees in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 18 August 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Works to trees within Bacup Town Centre Conservation Area specifically Carpinus betulus (Hornbeam) - Crown reduce. Height 2m. Lateral spread 1m. Crown raise 2m

Received
30 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Bacup
  1. Received30 Jul
  2. Validated30 Jul
  3. Consult.25 Aug
  4. Target10 Sep
  5. Decided18 Aug

Decided in 19 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a tree application at 17 Hammerton Green Bacup Lancashire OL13 9BD. Rossendale has handled 75 applications of this type. This one was decided in 19 days, 6 weeks quicker than Rossendale's typical decision time. The site is in the Bacup Town Centre conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. 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.

100% of trees 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 9BD
Application type
Works to Trees in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 July 2025
Consultation expiry
25 August 2025
Consultation start
4 August 2025
Consultation end
25 August 2025
Last date for comments
25 August 2025
Target decision date
10 September 2025
Permission expires
18 August 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14217291
Documents
4
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Bacup Town Centre Conservation Area
  • Article 4 direction: Bacup Town Centre Conservation Area+1 more
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Bacup Town Centre, Rossendale
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, 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: Rossendale

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