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£250,000

Balfour Garage, Balfour Street, Great Harwood, BB6

Land size
0.03 acres

Key Features

  • Opportunity to acquire vehicle repair workshop with maintenance pit and concrete gated yard.
  • Gross floor area 1,435 sq. ft.

Description

Fronting Balfour Street just off Park Road which links directly with Heys Lane, which is a mixed commercial area with a new housing development opposite. The A680 Whalley Road links Great Harwood with the boroughs of the Ribble Valley and Hyndburn. Junction 7 of the M65 is approximately 10 minutes' drive.
A steel portal frame engineering workshop unit with a minimum height of 6.5 metres extending to 7 metres at the apex. The workshop has a protective inner blockwork leaf to 4 feet with single skin profiled metal sheeting to the elevations and a double skin insulated roof with translucent panels. Internally, there is a solid concrete floor with a 9 metre vehicle maintenance pit, suspended sodium lighting and corner WC. Loading is through a metal up and over roller shutter door which is 4.65 metres in width and 5 metres in height. Fronting the unit is a very useful concrete surfaced yard which is secured by 8 feet metal palisade fencing and front security gates. Within the yard is a Portakabin which provides staff amenity.

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Tenure
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Date Posted
2026-01-29

Utilities & Restrictions

Utilities

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Sewerage
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Rights & Restrictions

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Listed status, conservation areas and planning constraints for this location are in the full report.

Property Features

Accessibility
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Parking
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Garden
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Beyond the particulars: planning activity, flood history, heritage and ground risks, checked for this exact spot.

Connectivity

Broadband

Fastest speed available at this postcode

1.8 Gbps

Gigabit full fibre

Suitable for

  • 4K streaming on every screen
  • Full-time home working
  • Online gaming & big downloads

Mobile signal

CallsDataEE Good GoodO2 Good GoodThree Good GoodVodafone Good Good

Outdoor predictions; indoor signal depends on building materials.

Ofcom Connected Nations postcode-level predictions. Speeds and signal are modelled, not measured, and vary between addresses and providers.

Signal is the easy part. Planning activity, flood history and protected designations here are in the full report.

Nearest Schools

Primary

  • St Hubert's Roman Catholic Primary School, Great Harwood165 metresOfsted: Good *
    Ages
    4 to 11
    Pupils
    137
    Type
    Voluntary aided school
    Faith
    Roman Catholic
  • Great Harwood St Bartholomew's Parish Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School767 metresOfsted: Good
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    180
    Type
    Voluntary aided school
    Faith
    Church of England
  • Great Harwood St John's Church of England Primary School996 metresOfsted: Good
    Ages
    5 to 11
    Pupils
    158
    Type
    Voluntary aided school
    Faith
    Church of England
  • Great Harwood Primary School0.8 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    210
    Type
    Community school
  • St Wulstan's Roman Catholic Primary School, Great Harwood0.8 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    4 to 11
    Pupils
    135
    Type
    Voluntary aided school
    Faith
    Roman Catholic

Secondary

  • The Hyndburn Academy1.5 milesOfsted report card · May 2026
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    641
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
  • Accrington St Christopher's Church of England High School2 milesOfsted report card · May 2026
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    1,280
    Type
    Academy converter
    Faith
    Church of England
  • Accrington Academy2.1 milesOfsted: Requires improvement *
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    953
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
    Faith
    Christian
  • St Augustine's Roman Catholic High School, a Voluntary Academy2.3 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    1,117
    Type
    Academy converter
    Faith
    Roman Catholic
  • Rhyddings2.9 milesOfsted: Requires improvement *
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    610
    Type
    Academy converter

* Latest graded judgement covers quality of education only; no overall grade was issued under the 2024-25 inspection framework.

Distances are straight-line from the advertised location. Source: the national school registers (DfE, Welsh Government, Scottish Government) and Ofsted.

Schools are just the start: sold prices nearby, planning activity and any flood history are in the full report.

Amenities

Supermarket

Aldi Great Harwood, Great Harwood274 metres
Tesco Blackburn Superstore, Great Harwood300 metres
Morrisons Great Harwood, Great Harwood488 metres

GP surgery

Great Harwood Medical Group533 metres

Pharmacy

Tesco Instore Pharmacy369 metres

Hospital

Accrington Victoria Hospital2.3 miles

Green space

Playing Field147 metres

Straight-line distances from the advertised location. Sources: NHS records, Geolytix supermarket locations, OS Open Greenspace and the national trails registers.

The area stacks up? Now check the location itself: planning nearby, protected designations and past flooding.

Getting Around

Nearest station

Rishton Rail Station2 miles

Nearest bus stop

Windsor Road152 metres

Typical drive times

Church9 min · 3 miles
Rishton5 min · 2.3 miles
Great Harwood2 min · 0.6 miles
Preston (city)29 min · 15 miles
Clayton-le-Moors5 min · 1.5 miles

Straight-line distances from the advertised location; drive times are typical free-flow times over OpenStreetMap road data, so allow more at peak. Public transport locations from DfT NaPTAN.

Easy to reach matters. So do planning activity, flood history and ground risks: all in the full report.

Flood Risk

From Environment Agency flood map open data, checked around the advertised map pin and allowing for the listed acreage where known. This summary comes from LandSale, the advertising platform, not from the listing agent, and is not part of the agent's particulars. Risk can vary across a single holding, so verify anything critical through your own searches before committing.

Rivers and the sea

Flood Zone 1Lower risk

Surface water

Outside the mapped risk bandsVery low risk

The detail behind these bandings

The full report pinpoints where this location sits on the flood maps, and runs the deeper checks that usually only surface after an offer.

  • Exact flood zones & annual chances (included in the full report)
  • Any recorded past flooding (included in the full report)
  • Planning activity nearby (included in the full report)
  • Heritage & conservation (included in the full report)
  • Protected nature designations (included in the full report)
  • Ground risks (included in the full report)
  • Sold prices nearby (included in the full report)

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