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Londis Bacup Gladstone Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 9JZ

2026/0014Prior App COU from commercial to dwellinApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 27 February 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval Required and GrantedDelegated (officer decision)5 conditions

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Prior Approval: Change of use of the vacant first floor commercial accommodation above the existing Londis store to form four self contained residential units, comprising three one person studio apartments and one one bedroom two person apartment.

Received
16 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Bacup
Agent
Studio INO Ltd
  1. Received16 Jan
  2. Validated16 Jan
  3. Consult.11 Feb
  4. Target20 Feb
  5. Decided27 Feb

Decided in 42 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Londis Bacup Gladstone Street Bacup Lancashire OL13 9JZ. Rossendale has handled 75 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 3 weeks quicker 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.

100% of outline 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 9JZ
Application type
Prior App COU from commercial to dwellin
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 January 2026
Consultation expiry
18 February 2026
Consultation start
21 January 2026
Consultation end
11 February 2026
Neighbour consultation start
21 January 2026
Neighbour consultation end
11 February 2026
Last date for comments
18 February 2026
Target decision date
20 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Studio INO Ltd
Agent address
10 West Street Alderley Edge Cheshire SK9 7EG United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
35 days

Publicity

Site notice start
28 January 2026
Site notice end
18 February 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14630108
Documents
9
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

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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