Temple Farm Bury Road Edgworth Bolton BL7 0BT Data via plota.co.uk

10/26/0482 - Discharge of Planning condition Approved
Admin / procedural

Proposal

Discharge Condition No.16 'bat licence/statement ' pursuant to planning application 10/26/0086 Data via plota.co.uk

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Received
25 May 2026
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Validated
26 May 2026
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Approved
10 Jun 2026

Approved on 10 Jun 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 1 Oct 2026

Documents 8

Decision & officer reports 3

PDF Decision notice 26.0086 Supporting Documents View ↗ PDF 9. DLET DISCHARGE OF CONDITIONS Decision Notice View ↗ PDF 9. DLET DISCHARGE OF CONDITIONS Decision Notice View ↗

Statements & assessments 1

PDF Ecology Comments Stat Consultee Responses · 24 Jun 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form Redacted.pdf Application Form - Redacted View ↗

Consultation & comments 1

PDF Ward Councillor Comments Stat Consultee Responses View ↗

Other documents 2

PDF Bat Mitigation Class Licence - TDIXON 10.26.0086. Supporting Documents View ↗ PDF Material Changes Check - TDIXON 10.26.0086.pdf Supporting Documents View ↗

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Associated applications 4

Site constraints 5

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.
Public footpath about 25 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 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
Priority habitat about 18 m away: Lowland fens.
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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Important details

Council
Blackburn
Application type
Discharge of Planning condition
Postcode
BL7 0BT
Received
25 May 2026
Validated
26 May 2026
Ward
West Pennine
Parish
Blackburn
Case officer
Show
Target decision
21 Jul 2026
Decision
PERMITS
Decision date
10 Jun 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
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Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry
21 Jul 2026

Historical activity at this location

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

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025 Approved
Convert agricultural building to residential dwelling (Use Class C3) with minor external…
10/25/0470
2019 Approved
To Demolish Part Existing Farmhouse, and Rebuild on Existing Footprint
10/19/0387
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
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings