ROUGHLEE Links Lane, Pleasington, Blackburn, Blackburn With Darwen, BB2 5JL Data via plota.co.uk

10/26/0790 - Application to undertake works to protected trees Approved

Proposal

T1 (Silver Birch) - Fell T2 (Beech) - Fell T3 (Maple) - 10% Crown Thin Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 7 Oct 2026, 06:32

Application progress

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Received

8 Sept 2026

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Approved

17 Sept 2026

Approved on 17 Sept 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 30 Sept 2026

Documents 7

Plans & drawings 1

PDF Tree Location Plan · 8 Sept 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form Redacted Application Form - Redacted · 8 Sept 2026 View ↗

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. 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.

Read the government guidance ↗

Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone

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

Radon affected area, class 5

An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.

From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.

UKHSA radon ↗

Also on the record

Coalfield, development low risk area; Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 3, but it predates the buildings here and the current map does not class it as farmland.

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 2

Last sold for £458,000 in July 2016. Detached house, freehold.

11 July 2016£458,000

11 May 1998£200,000

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

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Important details

Council: Blackburn
Application type: Application to undertake works to protected trees
Postcode: BB2 5JL
Received: 8 Sept 2026
Validated: 8 Sept 2026
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 3 Nov 2026
Decision: GRANT
Decision date: 17 Sept 2026
Decision level: Delegated
Applicant: Show
Agent: Ben Lewis Tree Services

How this decision compares

Decided in 9 days from validation, about the council's usual 11 days. Approved, as 94% of tree and landscaping works here are.

This one9d

Council11d

UK36d

97%decided within 8 weeks

94%approved

103decided in the last year

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

Consultation & key dates

Statutory expiry: 3 Nov 2026

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2022 Refused

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10/22/0118 15 Feb 2022

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