Land To East Of Heights Farm Roading Brook Road Bolton BL2 4JD Data via plota.co.uk

01387/26 - Permission in Principle Approved

Proposal

Application for permission in principle for erection of 1 no. dwelling Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 29 Oct 2026, 01:15

Application progress

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Received

28 Jul 2026

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Validated

3 Sept 2026

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Consultation

7 Sept 2026

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Approved

7 Oct 2026

Approved on 7 Oct 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 8 Oct 2026

Documents 8

PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Other · 29 Jul 2026 View ↗

PDF SITE LOCATION PLAN Application Submission Details · 28 Jul 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM REDACTED Application Form · 28 Jul 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 1

PDF Coal Authority Consultee Comment · 29 Jul 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 6

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. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.

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Public footpath about 12 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.

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). 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 Expansion Zone

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 3; Coalfield, development low risk area.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · 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 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: Bolton
Application type: Permission in Principle
Postcode: BL2 4JD
Received: 28 Jul 2026
Validated: 3 Sept 2026
Ward: Bradshaw
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 8 Oct 2026
Decision: Approve without condition
Decision date: 7 Oct 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: EdgePlan Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 34 days from validation, 22 days faster than Bolton's median of 56 for new homes. Approved, as 47% of new homes here are.

This one34d

Council56d

UK59d

54%decided within 8 weeks

47%approved

70decided in the last year

Plota live figures for new homes decided by Bolton in the last twelve months, from validation. Bolton decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

9 neighbours consulted · Last counted 8 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-15116326
Planning Portal ref: PP-15116326
Neighbours: 7 Sept 2026
Consultation: 7 Sept 2026
Comments by: 22 Sept 2026
Statutory expiry: 8 Oct 2026
Env. assessment: No

Historical activity at this location

1 nearby application on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2023 Approved

2 Heights Farm Roading Brook Road Bolton BL2 4JD

ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING LANDSCAPE TO ALLOW ERECTION OF TWO STOREY OUTBUILDING WITH GARAGE…

16418/23 2 Oct 2023

Bolton

Planning Authority Score

2.5/10

Poor

#250 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Bolton is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #229 out of 296. Bolton is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 83% approved vs 90% nationally.

One of the strictest councils

only 83% approved vs 90% nationally

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

Bolton decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

79%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #263 of 296

83%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #259 of 296

51%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #229 of 296

44%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #175 of 296

63%

Minor dwellings approved

70 decided (1-9 homes)

83%

Major dwellings approved

12 decided (10+ homes)

62%

Change of use approved

113 decided

996

Total decisions

208 refused in the year to March 2026