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Barn At Lower Lench Farm Lench Fold Clough Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7AF

2026/0302Refused
Prior approval

Refused on 25 September 2026

Council decision: Prior Approval Required and Refused

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Prior Notification: Proposal change of use from a barn to two dwellings within Class Q of the General Permitted Development Order 2015 as amended.

Received
3 August 2026
Public comments
1 · last counted 6 November 2026
Ward
Hareholme And Waterfoot
  1. Received3 Aug
  2. Validated7 Aug
  3. Consult.28 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided25 Sep

Decided in 49 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Barn At Lower Lench Farm Lench Fold Clough Cowpe Road Cowpe Rossendale Lancashire BB4 7AF. Rossendale has handled 1,354 applications of this type. This one was decided in 49 days, 2 weeks quicker than Rossendale's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 1,081 applications in total for the BB4 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
BB4 7AF
Parish
Not Available

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 August 2026
Consultation end
28 August 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
Mr Storm Grimshaw

Additional information

Documents
11

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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