Land At And Adjacent To Scout Moor Wind Farm Rossendale And Rochdale Data via plota.co.uk

73692 - Consultation From Neighbouring Authority Awaiting decision

Proposal

Article 18 consultation from Rossendale Borough Council (ref. ) Construction and operation of 12 wind turbines with a maximum height to the tip of the blade of 180 metres (above ground level), together with associated ancillary infrastructure comprising crane pads and hardstandings; new access tracks; improvement and widening works to Scout Road; onsite substation; underground electrical infrastructure and cabling; fencing and boundary treatments; external lighting; drainage infrastructure; habitat and moorland restoration works; public right of way works; landscaping; temporary construction compound and staging area; underground electrical grid connection to the Rossendale Bulk Supply Point; and associated engineering works; alongside the retention of and improvements to existing access tracks associated with the existing Scout Moor Wind Farm (Further Environmental Information). Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 7 Oct 2026, 13:25

Application progress

✓

Received

25 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 16 Oct 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 5 Nov 2026 and 17 Nov 2026, from recent other across the UK.

Documents

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Site constraints 7

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 Named permitted development rights are withdrawn here.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.

Open access land

Open country or registered common land, with a right to roam on foot.

Building on registered common land needs the consent of the Secretary of State as well as planning permission.

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) 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.

Habitat network: Blanket bog

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 4; Coalfield, development low risk area; Priority habitat 2 m away: Blanket bog.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. 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: Bury
Application type: Consultation From Neighbouring Authority
Received: 25 Sept 2026
Validated: 25 Sept 2026
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 16 Oct 2026
Decision level: Delegated

Decision outlook

Day 14 of the 56-day target. Councils usually decide other by day 48.

prediction

Day 1442 days to the 56-day target

76%decided within 8 weeks

96%approved

1,642decided in the last year

Plota live figures for other decided across the UK in the last twelve months, from validation; too few recent other in Bury to go on. Bury decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 7 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry: 16 Oct 2026
Env. assessment: No

Bury

Planning Authority Score

7.5/10

Good

#41 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Bury is faster than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #61 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (94%) than the national average (90%).

Faster than most councils

for householder decisions

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

Bury decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

86%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #191 of 296

94%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #99 of 296

76%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #61 of 296

32%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #64 of 296

59%

Minor dwellings approved

61 decided (1-9 homes)

78%

Major dwellings approved

9 decided (10+ homes)

79%

Change of use approved

63 decided

757

Total decisions

109 refused in the year to March 2026