Land To East Of Old Fold Road Old Fold Road Bolton BL5 2BY Data via plota.co.uk

01719/26 - Permission in Principle Deposited
New homes

Proposal

Application for permission in principle for erection of 9 no. dwellings Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
21 Sept 2026
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Validated
22 Sept 2026
✓
Consultation
23 Sept 2026
Decision
Expected by 27 Oct 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 15 Nov 2026 and 23 Nov 2026, from Bolton's recent new homes.

Comments are open until 14 Oct 2026

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Documents 8

Statements & assessments 2

PDF PLANNING STATEMENT Application Submission Details · 21 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF FLOOD RISK ASSESSMENT Application Submission Details · 21 Sept 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 3

PDF Commenter’s name hidden Show Other · 23 Sept 2026 View ↗
PDF PROPOSED SITE PLAN Application Submission Details · 21 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF SITE LOCATION PLAN Application Submission Details · 21 Sept 2026 View ↗

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATION FORM REDACTED Application Form · 22 Sept 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 2

PDF Coal Authority Consultee Comment · 23 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Network Rail Consultee Comment · 23 Sept 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 7

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. A site survey can differ.
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.
Public footpath about 28 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.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 2; Local nature reserve about 458 m away: Cunningham Clough Brook; 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.

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Important details

Council
Bolton
Application type
Permission in Principle
Postcode
BL5 2BY
Received
21 Sept 2026
Validated
22 Sept 2026
Ward
Westhoughton South
Parish
Westhoughton Town Council
Case officer
Show
Target decision
27 Oct 2026
Applicant
Show
Agent
MacMarshalls

Decision outlook

Day 17 of the 56-day target. Bolton usually decides new homes by day 56.

Day 1739 days to the 56-day target
56%decided within 8 weeks
46%approved
65decided in the last year

Plota live figures for new homes decided by Bolton in the last twelve months, from validation. Bolton decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

31 neighbours consulted · Last counted 24 Sept 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Neighbours
23 Sept 2026
Consultation
23 Sept 2026
Comments by
14 Oct 2026
Statutory expiry
27 Oct 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

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

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2022 Approved
Hart Common Manor Old Fold Road Westhoughton Bolton BL5 2BY
ERECTION OF SINGLE STOREY REAR EXTENSION
13550/22
2017 Approved
Old Fold Farm Old Fold Road Westhoughton Bolton BL5 2BY
APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF CONDITIONS 2 SITE INVESTIGATION, 5 DOORS AND WINDOWS, 7 MATER…
02271/17
2017
HART COMMON MANOR, OLD FOLD ROAD, WESTHOUGHTON, BOLTON, BL5 2BY
ERECTION OF 2NO. DORMERS TO REAR ELEVATION
01358/17
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