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112 Cleaver Street Burnley BB10 3ND
Change of use to C2 Residential institution to provide supported accommodation for young people.
5 Holme Road, Burnley, BB12 0BE (Louise has added this address - no address given on application form)
Discharge of condition no.3 (drainage strategy), condition no.4 (car parking area) and condition no.5 (site access and off-site works) attached to planning permission PA/2026/0153.
Former 3 Hapton Street, Padiham, Burnley, Lancashire BB12 8QS
Change of use to a driveway.
19 PRAIRIE CRESCENT, BURNLEY, BB10 1EU
Proposed Single Storey extension projecting 6.00 meters from the rear elevation, height to eaves of 2.59m and maximum height to ridge 3.30mtrs.
15A TODMORDEN ROAD, BURNLEY, BB10 4AB
Installation of an ATM machine - Retrospective
15A TODMORDEN ROAD, BURNLEY, BB10 4AB
Installation of an ATM machine - Retrospective
ARF ACRE, 24 BRASSEY STREET, BURNLEY, BB12 8AD
Application to work on 2 trees - T5 (Whitebeam) (fell), and T3 (Hawthorne) (prune), protected by B134 (Y) The Burnley (Brassey Street No 2) Tree Preservation Order 1991.
3 LIVESEY STREET, PADIHAM, BB12 7AB
Proposed Change of use from function room at first floor of social club into 3no flats.
GREAT BARN GAWTHORPE HALL, HABERGHAM DRIVE, PADIHAM, BB12 8UA
Discharge of conditions 8 (Record of the materials used in the roof and any other features) 9 (Any historic timber records) 10 (assessment of timbers for further research) attached to permission LBC/2
28 RED LEES AVENUE, CLIVIGER, BB10 4JE
Single storey rear extension.
209-213 Padiham Road, Burnley, BB12 0HB
Proposed change of use of existing retail computer shop (Class E) to a mixed use of restaurant and bar (Sui Generis) and installation of external extractor flue to the rear.
Old Holme Farm, Cemetery Lane, Burnley, BB11 5QB
Proposed two storey, side extension
52 CLOCKHOUSE AVENUE, BURNLEY, BB10 2SU
Construction of an outbuilding attached to the rear of the existing garage
SINGING RINGING TREE, CROWN POINT ROAD, BURNLEY
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 vicinit
Land adjacent to Hart Street, Hawk Street and Chapel Street, Burnley
Discharge of Condition(s) 3 (Materials) 9 (Landscape Scheme) 11 (Tree Protection) 12 (Hart Street Seating) 13 (Open Space and Planting Management) 14 (Lighting Scheme) 15 (Archaeology) 16 (Invasive Sp
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When Burnley Borough Council refuses an application, or does not decide it in time, the applicant can appeal to the Planning Inspectorate. An appeal that is allowed is one the council lost. Raw rates are not comparable between councils, because some kinds of appeal are allowed far more often than others, so the Inspectorate's national rate for each kind is applied to this council's own caseload to give the rate its mix predicts.
Burnley Borough Council, raw rate
29.4%
of judged appeals were allowed, so the council's decision did not stand
Expected for this mix of appeals
31.3%
what the national rate for each kind of appeal predicts for this council's caseload
1.9 percentage points below expected. Burnley Borough Council's decisions are overturned less often than the national record for the same kinds of appeal predicts for its caseload.
126 appeals counted, 119 judged either way (35 allowed, 84 dismissed), 7 judged neither way. These are appeals decided 2016-08 to 2026-06.
Each kind of appeal against the national rate for the same kind. This is the comparison the headline is built from.
| Appeal type | Cases | Judged | Allowed | This council | National |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Planning Appeal | 66 | 66 | 18 | 27.3% | 28.8% |
| Householder (HAS) | 41 | 40 | 15 | 37.5% | 35.6% |
| Lawful Development Certificate | 6 | 6 | 1 | 16.7% | 36.9% |
| Enforcement Notice | 4 | 2 | 0 | Too few judged | 13.5% |
| Commercial Appeal Service (CAS) | 3 | 3 | 0 | Too few judged | 33.3% |
| Environmental | 2 | 0 | 0 | None judged | Not published |
| Tree Preservation Order | 2 | 1 | 0 | Too few judged | 20.6% |
| High Hedges | 1 | 1 | 1 | Too few judged | 28.5% |
| Rights of Way Opposed Orders | 1 | 0 | 0 | None judged | Not published |
“Judged” counts appeals allowed or dismissed. The rest were withdrawn, invalid, split or unrecorded, and are counted but never treated as appeals the council won. A percentage is published only where at least 5 appeals were judged either way. Where it is not, the counts still are: a rate over one or two cases would claim a precision the sample cannot carry.
Source: the Planning Inspectorate's Casework Database, published quarterly on GOV.UK. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. These figures are the Inspectorate's appeal record, not the council's own planning register.
Burnley Borough Council collects contributions from developers under planning obligations, but we do not yet hold its register in a form we can publish figures from. Only a minority of authorities publish one we can read, and this is not one of them, so we show nothing rather than a figure we cannot stand behind.
Beside what the council collected from developers, this is what central government confirmed: schemes in the area with grant agreed under the Homes England Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026.
Source: Homes England, schemes confirmed under the Affordable Homes Programme 2021 to 2026, published on GOV.UK as transparency data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are as at 31 March 2025, the publication's own cut-off, so later schemes are not in them. Grant requested is the publisher's own figure at the point grant was confirmed, not money drawn down. Schemes are placed by the local authority name in the publication, which carries no planning reference.
Burnley Borough Council is a local planning authority responsible for processing planning applications within its area. Applications are submitted through the council's planning portal and cover a wide range of development types, from householder extensions and change of use to large-scale residential and commercial schemes.
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You can also browse the council's own planning register on the official Burnley Borough Council planning portal.
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