Singing Ringing Tree, Crown Point Road, Burnley Data via plota.co.uk

PA/2026/0386 - Full planning permission Approved

Proposal

Proposed Development are as follows: Create a new accessible path to the Singing Ringing Tree, suitable for disabled visitors. Replace rotten fencing and access gates. Improve surfacing in the vicinity of the sculpture. Refurbish seating and provide improved signage. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 29 Oct 2026, 01:20

Application progress

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Received

24 Aug 2026

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Validated

25 Aug 2026

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Approved

16 Oct 2026

Approved on 16 Oct 2026 · Development Control Committee · Last checked 16 Oct 2026

Documents 8

Site constraints 7

Public footpath about 10 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.

Open access land

Open country or registered common land, with a right to roam on foot.

Building on registered common land needs the consent of the Secretary of State as well as planning permission.

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.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

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.

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Also on the record

Coalfield, development low risk area; Priority habitat about 15 m away: Grass moorland.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · 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.

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Important details

Council: Burnley
Application type: Full planning permission
Postcode: BB11 3RT
Received: 24 Aug 2026
Validated: 25 Aug 2026
Ward: Cliviger with Worsthorne
Parish: Cliviger
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 20 Oct 2026
Decision: Approve with Conditions
Decision date: 16 Oct 2026
Decision level: Development Control Committee
Applicant: Show
Agent: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 52 days from validation, about the council's usual 55 days. Approved, as 82% of full applications here are.

This one52d

Council55d

UK56d

61%decided within 8 weeks

82%approved

8%go to committee

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 16 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Comments by: 29 Sept 2026
Committee: 15 Oct 2026

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

Singing Ringing Tree, Crown Point Road, Burnley Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 8

Decision & officer reports 2

Statements & assessments 2

Plans & drawings 1

Application forms 1

Other documents 2

Site constraints 7

Important details

How this decision compares

Public comments

Consultation & key dates