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Search the Public Notice PortalA pair of homes in Darwen that have seen better days have been given a new future, after an application to turn them over to industrial use was approved by Blackburn with Darwen Council.
The semi-detached stone residential dwellings in Hollins Grove Street, near Darwen’s town centre, are bordered by residential dwellings to their north and the multi-business space at Hollins Grove Mill from every other angle.
But rather than a restoration of the late Victorian terraced properties, built to support the mill, the buildings will now be repurposed as a potential storage space for businesses.
“The properties are considered to have exceeded their reasonable lifespan as dwellings, and it is not reasonably viable to invest in their enhancement to achieve modern standards or accommodation,” the application to change the use of the site explains.
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The applicant, Heaton Estates Ltd., states that no external alterations will be made to buildings or their rear yards, with its new use classification allowing ‘small scale workshop/cottage industries and/or domestic and commercial clients’ to rent individual rooms as a storage facility.
Each of the buildings will be split into storage facilities with four rooms each that are available for businesses to rent.
While there is no off-street parking for this new light industry and business use of the properties, which could increase the amount of traffic to the site, Blackburn with Darwen’s planning officer noted that ‘the applicant is physically unable to propose any off-street car parking because there is simply no land available within the application site.’
However, they also stated that its new purpose as a storage facility meant that this traffic risk from frequent use was low and would not have ‘unacceptable impacts’ on nearby roads.
This new purpose also added weight to the officer’s decision to approve the development, as the buildings are currently unoccupied and in a state of disrepair.
This is despite a lack of accessible parking, which the applicant said would be mediated by allowing those with additional needs to park in the nearby mill complex, which is also operated by Heaton Estates Ltd.
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