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Loom Cafe Bar Park Mill Holcombe Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4NP

2025/0390Refused

Refused on 27 November 2025

1 reason for refusal

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Application for External Seating Area in association with the Loom Cafe and Bar

Received
22 September 2025
  1. Received22 Sep
  2. Validated20 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided27 Nov

Decided in 38 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Loom Cafe Bar Park Mill Holcombe Road Helmshore Rossendale Lancashire BB4 4NP. Rossendale has handled 1,355 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 4 weeks quicker than Rossendale's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 1,082 applications in total for the BB4 postcode area.

Why it was refused

  1. The provision of external seating within the adopted public footway will result in the footway being blocked for all other footway users, potentially resulting in footway users being forced out into a busy highway. This would have an unacceptable impact on highway and pedestrian safety and would be contrary to Paragraph 116 of the National Planning Policy Framework.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
BB4 4NP

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 October 2025

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Article 4 direction: Immediate Article 4 Direction for small Houses in Multiple Occupation
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.

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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