Lower Doghill Farm Grains Road Shaw Oldham OL1 4SS
Approved on 13 May 2026
Council decision: Prior Approval Required and GrantedDelegated (officer decision)1 condition
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Proposal
Prior Approval for general purpose Agricultural Building with associated engineering works.
- Received
- 24 March 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Shaw
- Agent
- Mark Jones Planning Consultancy
- ReceivedReceived24 Mar
- ValidatedValidated24 Mar
- Consult.Consultation4 May
- TargetTarget Date8 May
- DecidedDecided13 May
Decided in 50 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is a planning application at Lower Doghill Farm Grains Road Shaw Oldham OL1 4SS. Oldham has handled 9 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days, 13 days quicker than Oldham's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Shaw. We hold 210 applications in total for the OL1 postcode area.
93% of all applications at Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- OL1 4SS
- Application type
- Agricultural Notification
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Shaw & Crompton Town Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 24 March 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 4 May 2026
- Last date for comments
- 4 May 2026
- Target decision date
- 8 May 2026
- Permission expires
- 13 May 2029
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- Mark Jones Planning Consultancy
- Agent address
- 4 Sykes Close Greenfield OLDHAM OL3 7PT
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Dave Richards
- Statutory period
- 45 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 13 April 2026
- Site notice end
- 4 May 2026
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Green belt: Oldham
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (21)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.
A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.
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