Wilsons Playing Fields, Whalley Road, Clayton Le Moors, Lancashire, BB5 5SG Data via plota.co.uk

11/26/0377 - Full Planning Application Approved

Proposal

Full: Permanent installation of an outdoor obstacle training rig to support the Olympic sport of Modern Pentathlon with associated fencing Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓

Received

14 Aug 2026

✓

Approved

25 Sept 2026

Approved on 25 Sept 2026 · Last checked 26 Sept 2026

Documents 14

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.

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Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). 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.

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 listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. 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: Hyndburn
Application type: Full Planning Application
Postcode: BB5 5SG
Received: 14 Aug 2026
Validated: 14 Aug 2026
Case officer: Show
Decision: Approved With Conditions
Decision date: 25 Sept 2026
Applicant: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 42 days from validation, 11 days faster than Hyndburn's median of 53 for full applications. Approved, as 75% of full applications here are.

This one42d

Council53d

UK56d

63%decided within 8 weeks

75%approved

58decided in the last year

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

Public comments

No public comments yet.

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Consultation & key dates

Consultation: 14 Aug 2026
Comments by: 8 Sept 2026
Statutory expiry: 9 Oct 2026

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

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Clayton Hall, Clayton Hall Drive, Clayton-Le-Moors, BB5 5SG

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Hyndburn

Planning Authority Score

2.4/10

Poor

#257 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Hyndburn ranks #163 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. 50% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Hyndburn is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 78% approved vs 90% nationally.

One of the strictest councils

only 78% approved vs 90% nationally

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Hyndburn decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

77%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #279 of 296

78%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #288 of 296

62%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #163 of 296

50%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #225 of 296

67%

Minor dwellings approved

6 decided (1-9 homes)

67%

Major dwellings approved

3 decided (10+ homes)

63%

Change of use approved

43 decided

277

Total decisions

64 refused in the year to March 2026

Wilsons Playing Fields, Whalley Road, Clayton Le Moors, Lancashire, BB5 5SG Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 14

Decision & officer reports 1

Statements & assessments 1

Plans & drawings 6

Application forms 1

Consultation & comments 2

Other documents 3

Site constraints 5

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