188 - 190 Chapel Road Oldham OL8 4QL
Approved on 3 December 2025
Council decision: Prior Approval Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)4 conditions
Proposal
Change of use of vacant shop unit (Class E) into 7 no. self contained apartments (Class C3).
- Received
- 4 September 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 2
- Ward
- Hollinwood
- ReceivedReceived4 Sep
- ValidatedValidated4 Sep
- Consult.Consultation13 Oct
- TargetTarget Date28 Nov
- DecidedDecided3 Dec
Decided in 90 days
About this application
This is a planning application for a change of use at 188 - 190 Chapel Road Oldham OL8 4QL. Oldham has handled 2,105 applications of this type. This one was decided in 90 days, 4 weeks longer 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 28 applications across Hollinwood. We hold 271 applications in total for the OL8 postcode area.
Application details
- Postcode
- OL8 4QL
- Application type
- COU Comm/Bus/Serv to Dwelling House
- Scale / size
- Medium
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 4 September 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 13 October 2025
- Consultation start
- 22 September 2025
- Consultation end
- 13 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 22 September 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 13 October 2025
- Last date for comments
- 13 October 2025
- Target decision date
- 28 November 2025
- Permission expires
- 3 December 2028
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- Health Care - Private
- Agent address
- 51 Higher Shady Lane, Bromley Cross Bolton Lancashire BL79AQ United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Abiola Labisi
- Statutory period
- 85 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14295922
- Documents
- 15
- Constraints
- 11
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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 (22)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, 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.
Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences
Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.
© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Source: Oldham
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