GREEN GATE Moorside Road, Edgworth, Bolton, Blackburn With Darwen, BL7 0JY Data via plota.co.uk

Approved 10/26/0752 - Application to undertake works to protected trees
Trees & landscaping
Council
Blackburn 7.2/10
Date received
8 Sept 2026
Decision date
13 Sept 2026
Postcode
BL7 0JY
Type
Application to undertake works to protected trees

Description

Utility pruning works Data via plota.co.uk

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How this decision compares

Decided in 5 days from validation, about the council's usual 6 days. Approved, as 93% of tree works here are.

100%decided within 8 weeks
93%approved
14decided in the last year

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

Site constraints 2

Agricultural land, grade 5
Very poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. Predicted from the national soil map. The older provisional map, 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.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 11 September 2026. 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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Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025 Approved
Walker House Moorside Road Edgworth Bolton BL7 0JY
Replacement of existing single storey rear structures and construction of accessible sing…
10/25/0678
2025 Approved
Greystokes Moorside Road Edgworth Bolton BL7 0JY
Single storey infill extension to the rear
10/25/0626
2025 Approved
Sanderson Mitchell House Moorside Road Edgworth Bolton BL7 0JY
T1 Ash - Deadwood removal and lateral reduction over house by 2-3m T2 Sycamore - Crown li…
10/25/0714
2022 Refused
Sanderson Mitchell House Moorside Road Edgworth Bolton BL7 0JY
Change of use from residential dwelling (C3a) to residential childrens home (C2) for a ma…
10/22/0947
2022 Approved
Beckett House Moorside Road Edgworth Bolton BL7 0JY
Discharge Condition No 3 "materials" pursuant to planning application 10/20/1187
10/22/0855
2022 Refused
Sanderson Mitchell House Moorside Road Edgworth Bolton BL7 0JY
Use of a C3a dwelling for a childrens home for a maximum of four children, with two carer…
10/22/0771
2021 Refused
Walker House Moorside Road Edgworth Turton BL70PY
Replacement of existing single storey rear structures and construction of single storey e…
10/21/0530
2020 Approved
Beckett House Moorside Road Edgworth Bolton BL7 0JY
Demolition of existing detached garage and construction of ground floor garage and first…
10/20/1187
2019 Approved
Greystokes Moorside Road Edgworth Bolton BL7 0JY
Insertion of 6 velux windows
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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
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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