Agricultural Building At Whitaker Clough Farm Burnley Road Bacup Lancashire OL13 8RQ Data via plota.co.uk

2026/0129 - Prior Notification Agricultural Approved

Proposal

Prior Notification: Retrofit and repair existing agricultural building used for storage Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 08:56

Application progress

✓

Received

13 Apr 2026

✓

Approved

7 May 2026

Approved on 7 May 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 5 Jul 2026

Documents 7

Site constraints 7

Coal mining development high risk area

Recorded coal mining features at or near the surface. Most planning applications here need a coal mining risk assessment.

From the Mining Remediation Authority, formerly the Coal Authority. The development high risk area marks recorded coal mining features at or near the surface: mine shafts and adits, shallow workings, mine gas and former opencast sites. Most planning applications there need a coal mining risk assessment; householder applications, changes of use and some minor works are exempt. Mine entry positions come from old plans and can be out by several metres, and unrecorded workings can exist anywhere in the coalfield.

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Article 4 direction

Immediate Article 4 Direction for small Houses in Multiple Occupation. Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.

An Article 4 direction withdraws particular permitted development rights, so work that would normally need no application needs one here. Not every council has published its directions.

Agricultural land, grade 4

Poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) agrees.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Public footpath about 24 m away

Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.

Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 2; National infrastructure project about 660 m away: Calderdale Energy Park, at pre-application.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Mining Remediation Authority, the Planning Inspectorate, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council: Rossendale
Application type: Prior Notification Agricultural
Postcode: OL13 8RQ
Received: 13 Apr 2026
Validated: 13 Apr 2026
Ward: Bacup
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 10 May 2026
Decision: Prior Approval Required and Granted
Decision date: 7 May 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 24 days from validation, 15 days faster than Rossendale's median of 39 for prior approvals. Approved, as 70% of prior approvals here are.

This one24d

Council39d

UK33d

90%decided within 8 weeks

70%approved

10decided in the last year

Plota live figures for prior approvals decided by Rossendale in the last twelve months, from validation. Rossendale decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-14850692
Planning Portal ref: PP-14850692
Statutory expiry: 10 May 2026
Env. assessment: No

Rossendale

Planning Authority Score

1/10

Poor

#293 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Rossendale is one of the slowest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #287 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 75% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (88%) than the national average (90%).

Among the slowest councils in England

for householder decisions

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Rossendale decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

86%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #197 of 296

88%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #222 of 296

27%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #287 of 296

75%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #293 of 296

85%

Minor dwellings approved

34 decided (1-9 homes)

100%

Major dwellings approved

3 decided (10+ homes)

59%

Change of use approved

17 decided

231

Total decisions

33 refused in the year to March 2026