Raikes Barn Tottington Road Bolton BL2 4LJ Data via plota.co.uk

01690/26 - Notice of Intention (Trees) Deposited
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

Notice of intention to prune 1. No hazel and holly Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
16 Sept 2026
✓
Consultation
16 Sept 2026
Decision
Target date was 28 Oct 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 31 Oct 2026 and 9 Nov 2026, from Bolton's recent tree and landscaping works.

The consultation period closed on 7 Oct 2026.

Documents 2

Plans & drawings 1

IMG SKETCH PLAN Application Submission Details · 16 Sept 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM REDACTED Application Form · 16 Sept 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 6

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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Public footpath about 18 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.
Agricultural land, grade 4
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: 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
Radon affected area, class 3; Coalfield, development low risk area.
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.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £800,000 in July 2023. Other property, freehold.

12 July 2023£800,000Recorded as a transfer outside a standard sale

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Council
Bolton
Application type
Notice of Intention (Trees)
Postcode
BL2 4LJ
Received
16 Sept 2026
Validated
16 Sept 2026
Ward
Bradshaw
Case officer
Show
Target decision
28 Oct 2026
Applicant
Show

Decision outlook

Day 44 of the 56-day target. Bolton usually decides tree and landscaping works by day 50.

Day 4412 days to the 56-day target
66%decided within 8 weeks
93%approved
213decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 28 Oct 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15229362
Planning Portal ref
PP-15229362
Consultation
16 Sept 2026
Comments by
7 Oct 2026
Statutory expiry
28 Oct 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

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

This property

Previous applications at this address

2024 Approved
ERECTION OF A PERGOLA AND CREATION OF AN OUTDOOR SEATING AND DINING ARE AT REAR OF PROPER…
17933/24
2018 Refused
NOTICE OF INTENTION FOR THE FELLING OF 1NO. WILLOW.
02819/18
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2016 Refused
RAIKES FARM, TOTTINGTON ROAD, BOLTON, BL2 4LJ
NOTICE OF INTENTION FOR THE FELLING OF 1 ASH TREE.
95805/16
Bolton
Planning Authority Score
2.5/10
Poor
#250 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Bolton is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #229 out of 296. Bolton is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 83% approved vs 90% nationally.

One of the strictest councils
only 83% approved vs 90% nationally
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Bolton decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
79%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #263 of 296
83%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #259 of 296
51%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #229 of 296
44%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #175 of 296
63%
Minor dwellings approved
70 decided (1-9 homes)
83%
Major dwellings approved
12 decided (10+ homes)
62%
Change of use approved
113 decided
996
Total decisions
208 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.