Sweet Well House Farm, Todmorden Road, Briercliffe, BB10 3PL Data via plota.co.uk

PA/2026/0441 - Householder planning permission Under Consultation

Proposal

Second storey extension Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 27 Oct 2026, 01:19

Application progress

✓

Received

6 Oct 2026

✓

Validated

7 Oct 2026

Decision

Expected by 2 Dec 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision around 28 Nov 2026, from Burnley's recent extensions.

Comments are open until 5 Nov 2026

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Documents 4

Site constraints 6

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.

Public footpath about 22 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 Expansion Zone

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

Also on the record

Scheduled monument about 184 m away: Pike Low bowl barrow and site of beacon, Bonfire Hill; Radon affected area, class 2; Coalfield, development low risk area.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt

Checked on 15 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: Burnley
Application type: Householder planning permission
Postcode: BB10 3PL
Received: 6 Oct 2026
Validated: 7 Oct 2026
Ward: Briercliffe
Parish: Briercliffe
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 2 Dec 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Show

Decision outlook

Day 21 of the 56-day target. Burnley usually decides extensions by day 52.

prediction

Day 2135 days to the 56-day target

77%decided within 8 weeks

83%approved

126decided in the last year

Plota live figures for extensions decided by Burnley in the last twelve months, from validation. Burnley decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 22 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Comments by: 5 Nov 2026

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2020 Approved

Sweet Well House Farm Todmorden Road Briercliffe Lancashire BB10 3PL

Proposed extension of existing farm house into former cottage

FUL/2020/0016 27 Feb 2020

2020 Approved

Sweet Well House Farm Todmorden Road Briercliffe Lancashire BB10 3PL

Proposed extension of existing farm house into former cottage

FUL/2020/0016 27 Feb 2020

Burnley

Planning Authority Score

5/10

Average

#145 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Burnley ranks #113 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (90%) than the national average (90%).

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

Burnley decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

88%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #148 of 296

90%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #187 of 296

71%

Decided in 8 weeks

Above avg (63%) #113 of 296

40%

Extended time limit

Below avg (41%) #149 of 296

73%

Minor dwellings approved

30 decided (1-9 homes)

92%

Major dwellings approved

12 decided (10+ homes)

82%

Change of use approved

22 decided

294

Total decisions

36 refused in the year to March 2026