Land at Entwistle Reservoir Batridge Road Bolton BL7 0LU Data via plota.co.uk

10/26/0840 - Full Planning Application Pending Consideration

Proposal

Construction of control kiosk building Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 7 Oct 2026, 08:19

Application progress

✓

Received

25 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 20 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 16 Nov 2026 and 15 Dec 2026, from Blackburn's recent commercial and major works.

Documents 8

Site constraints 7

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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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

Radon affected area, class 3; SSSI about 354 m away: West Pennine Moors SSSI; Coalfield, development low risk area; Priority habitat about 15 m away: Good quality semi improved grassland.

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: Blackburn
Application type: Full Planning Application
Postcode: BL7 0LU
Received: 25 Sept 2026
Validated: 25 Sept 2026
Ward: West Pennine
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 20 Nov 2026
Applicant: Show
Agent: McDonald Wilkinson Tonge

Decision outlook

Day 14 of the 56-day target. Blackburn usually decides commercial and major works by day 64.

prediction

Day 1450 days to the predicted decision (day 64)

50%decided within 8 weeks

98%approved

24%go to committee

Plota live figures for commercial and major works decided by Blackburn in the last twelve months, from validation. Blackburn decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry: 20 Nov 2026

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

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

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

Land at Entwistle Reservoir Batridge Road Bolton BL7 0LU Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 8

Statements & assessments 2

Plans & drawings 4

Application forms 1

Other documents 1

Site constraints 7

Important details

Decision outlook

Consultation & key dates