Extension plan for Lancashire B&M store - and 6 other new applications this week in East Lancashire

Bosses at the shop in The Peel Centre in Whitebirk Drive, Rishton, have applied to Hyndburn Borough Council for permission for a new 4.8m-high fence - so they can provide an extension to the existing garden centre, including lighting.

Their planning statement says: “As part of the company’s on-going evolution of its business model to meet consumer demands, a small scale extension to the existing external garden centre area is required to support the main ranges of goods sold within the existing garden centre and B&M Store whilst enabling a fuller garden centre product range to be displayed to meet customer requirements.”

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The proposal is expected to involve capital expenditure of approximately £160,000 and would see an extra three to four part time jobs created.

The garden centre extension will extend to 701 sq.m, providing in total an external garden centre including garden centre storage compound of 1,181 sq.m. No additional landscaping is proposed since the extension will enclose an open, hard surfaced area to the side of the existing store and adjacent to the existing garden centre.

Although 11 car parking spaces will be used to accommodate the extension, the retail park contains over 600 spaces. B&M say it will ‘therefore not give rise to unacceptable traffic conditions nor give rise to a significant traffic impact’.

A decision will be made in coming weeks by planning chiefs at Hyndburn Borough Council.

More applications verified in East Lancashire in the past week:

- Complete re roof to a listed grade 2 property involving strippping back roof, replacing membrane and reinstating existing slates and wheer required replaceing broken slates like for like and ridge tiles -at Rossbrook House New Line Bacup

- Proposed refurbishment and erection of porch entrance to create a dwelling independent from the golf club - Bacup Golf Club, Maden Road, Bacup.

- Advertisement Consent: Display of two signs in Accrington town centre.

- Listed Building Consent for demolition and rebuild of boundary wall - Saint Bartholomews School, Exchange Street, Colne.

- Conversion of existing outbuilding to an annex, including insertion of windows, blocking up existing garage doors, raising the South-East elevation, installation of bi-fold doors with glass balustrade, and use of matching materials with vertical timber panels on the North-East elevation - Cappers Farm, Well Head Road, Newchurch In Pendle.

- Conversion of a stable block to form one dwelling - Whitehough Grange, Barley New Road, Barley.

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