Samlesbury Aerodrome BAE Systems Operations Ltd Myerscough Smithy Road Balderstone BB2 7LF

1. 18 Jul 2024

   Received by Ribble Valley

2. 29 Jul 2024

   Validated

   Checked as complete and ready for consideration.

3. 17 Oct 2024

   Decision issued: APPROVED WITH CONDITIONS

4. 27 Aug 2026

   Added to PlanIndex

Permission has been granted, usually subject to conditions listed on the decision notice, some of which must be discharged before work starts. The decision notice on the council portal sets out exactly what was approved.

Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses. Neighbours cannot appeal a grant; challenging one means judicial review of how the decision was made, within tight time limits.

An amendment application changes a permission that already exists. Non-material amendments cover small adjustments with no wider effect, while minor material amendments, usually made by varying a condition, allow modest design changes without a fresh application. Anything beyond that needs a new permission, so the scope here is deliberately narrow.

More on amendments applications in our guide

• Samlesbury Aerodrome BAE Systems Operations Ltd Myerscough Smithy Road Balderstone BB2 7LF

  36978 Submitted 8 Nov 2024 0m away

  Approval of details reserved by condition 5 (lighting scheme) of planning permission 3/2024/0609.

  Granted Conditions 3 docs

• BAE Systems Samlesbury Aerodrome Myerscough Smithy Road Balderstone BB2 7LF

  36620 Submitted 9 Jul 2024 0m away

  Certificate of Lawfulness for proposed development to confirm that the development approved by outline planning permission 3/2006/0583 and reserved matters permission 3/2022/0434 can be lawfully commenced.

  Granted Lawful development 10 docs

• Cowells Farm Cuerdale Lane Samlesbury PR5 0UX

  35192 Submitted 23 Feb 2023 0m away

  Consultation on South Ribble application 07/2023/00035/OUT. Outline planning application (With all matters reserved) for an employment-led mixed use development comprising up to 170,000sqm of employment floorspace (Use Class B2/B8) up to 10,000sqm of C1 Hotels, 5,000sqm of class E(b) retail use, and up to 7500sqm of Class E(g) office use, with associated car parking, service yards and loading bays, landscaping and associated access across 3 plots of land at Cuerdale, land to the West of Salmesbury, South Ribble together with the demolition of a dwelling.

  Decided Other Demolition 3 docs
  Domestic

• Samlesbury Enterprise Zone Mellor Brook BB2 7FT

  38428 Submitted 6 May 2026 0m away

  Consultation on South Ribble application 07/2026/00320/LDO. Prior notification of development for erection of two and three-storey innovation hub (Use classes Eg(i), (ii) and (iii)) with associated infrastructure, landscaping and access.

  Granted Other 1 doc

• Samlesbury Aerodrome BAE Systems Operations Ltd Myerscough Smithy Road Balderstone BB2 7LF

  38483 Submitted 20 May 2026 292m away

  Approval of details reserved by conditions 7 (SW drainage), 8 (construction SW management) and 11 (landscaping scheme) of planning permission 3/2025/0852.

  Granted Conditions 18 docs

• BAE Samlesbury Aerodrome Whalley Road Samlesbury BB2 7LB

  34388 Submitted 8 Jun 2022 437m away

  Consultation on South Ribble Borough Council application 07/2022/00473/LDO for Refurbishment of existing office building (class B1) to include rooftop plant extension, external stair, external and internal refurbishment, new external security arrangements (fence, gates, kiosk) with associated landscaping, parking reconfiguration. Removal of small existing building, creation of external plant compound and portacabin type visitor reception building.

  Granted Other Extension
  Small domestic

• 38583 Granted

  High Beech House 8a Crow Trees Brow Chatburn Clitheroe BB7 4AA

  Removal of condition 7 (Permitted development rights) on permission 3/1993/0817.

  1 Jul 2026 Amendments
• 38575 Granted

  Barrowbridge House Club Street Barrow BB7 9AY

  Non material amendment to application 3/2024/0990 involving change in size of window to northwest elevation to Plots 1, 2, and 3.

  6 Jul 2026 Amendments
• 38669 Withdrawn

  Land off Clitheroe Road Whalley (Lawsonsteads phase 2) BB7 9RG

  Non-material amendment to planning permission 3/2018/0914 involving amendments to driveway width, handing of plot 124, boundary amendments, amendment to garden retaining walls, amendment to chimney locations and roof height amendment to House Type K.

  31 Jul 2026 Amendments
• 38528 Withdrawn

  4a Wiswell Lane Whalley BB7 9AF

  Variation of condition 2 (plans) to increase the length of the extension on planning permission 3/2025/0945 for a proposed single-storey side and rear extension.

  11 Jun 2026 Amendments
• 38652 Awaiting decision

  8 Hammond Drive Read BB12 7RE

  Variation of condition 1 (approved plans) to reference drawings 6219 PO1J; 6219 PO2J and 6219 PO3I on planning permission 3/2023/0118 for retrospective application for extensions to side and rear and first floor (an increase of 300mm to east elevation compared to previously approved applications 3/2021/0428 and 3/2021/1074) and the insertion of an additional window at ground floor on the eastern elevation.

  27 Jul 2026 Amendments