Meadowcroft Farm Bury Road Edgworth Bolton BL7 0BS Data via plota.co.uk

Approved 10/25/0682
Admin / proceduralCommercial premises
Council
Blackburn 7.2/10
Date received
week of 30 Jun 2025
Decision date
week of 23 Feb 2026
Postcode
BL7 0BS

Description

Variation of Condition No.2 'approved drawings' pursuant to planning application 'Conversion of agricultural building to holiday accommodation, external alterations to building, retaining wall works and associated landscaping' -... Data via plota.co.uk

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Site constraints 4

Green belt: Merseyside and Greater Manchester
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm.
Agricultural land, grade 5
Very 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), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
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.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 18 September 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 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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Historical activity at this location

12 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2023 Approved
Conversion of agricultural building to holiday accommodation, external alterations to bui…
10/23/0380
2022 Withdrawn
Conversion of agricultural building to dwelling C3
10/22/1221
2019 Withdrawn
Sub division of dwelling into 2 Cottages with extensions
10/19/0837
2019 Withdrawn
Sub division of dwelling into 2 Cottages with extensions
10/19/0844
2018 Approved
New track and access onto Bury Road (retrospective)
10/18/1058
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2021 Approved
Lower Pelton Barn Bury Road Edgworth Bolton BL7 0BS
Single Storey LHS Gable Extension
10/21/0560
2020 Approved
Pelton Fold Farm Bury Road Edgworth Bolton BL7 0BS
Single storey extension to existing dwelling to create garden room
10/20/0048
2017 Approved
Meadowcroft Barn Bury Road Edgworth BOLTON BL7 0BS
Change of use from equestrian (sui generis) to bed and breakfast (C1) to be used in conne…
10/17/1137
2016 Approved
Meadowcroft Barn Bury Road Edgworth BL7 0BS
Discharge condition 3, 4 & 5 of 10/15/0011
10/16/0708/NEW
2016 Approved
Meadowcroft Barn Bury Road Edgworth BL7 0BS
Discharge condition 3, 4 & 5 of 10/15/0011
10/16/0708
2016 Approved
Meadowcroft Farm Bury Road Edgworth BL7 0BJ
Discharge conditions 1, 2, 3 and 4 on planning application 10/15/0908
10/16/0084/NEW
2016 Approved
Meadowcroft Farm Bury Road Edgworth BL7 0BJ
Discharge conditions 1, 2, 3 and 4 on planning application 10/15/0908
10/16/0084
Blackburn
Planning Authority Score
7.2/10
Good
#55 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Blackburn is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #90 out of 296. Householder applications are more likely to be approved here than most councils, with a 98% approval rate vs 90% nationally.

More permissive than most councils
98% approved vs 90% nationally
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Blackburn decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
96%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #7 of 296
98%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #10 of 296
73%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #90 of 296
40%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #147 of 296
88%
Minor dwellings approved
40 decided (1-9 homes)
100%
Major dwellings approved
7 decided (10+ homes)
86%
Change of use approved
56 decided
519
Total decisions
23 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings