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8A School House Road Oldham OL4 5LH

CEA/350993/23Cert of Lawful Use/Operation - ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 18 October 2023

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness for the use of the existing dwelling for residential accommodation to include the occupation of two children or young person with up to two full time carers.

Received
16 May 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
7
Ward
Saint Mary's
  1. Received16 May
  2. Validated27 Jul
  3. Consult.21 Aug
  4. Target13 Oct
  5. Decided18 Oct

Decided in 83 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application at 8A School House Road Oldham OL4 5LH. Oldham has handled 132 applications of this type. This one was decided in 155 days, 13 weeks longer than Oldham's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 74 applications across Saint Mary's. We hold 366 applications in total for the OL4 postcode area.

95% of outline 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
OL4 5LH
Application type
Cert of Lawful Use/Operation - Proposed
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 July 2023
Consultation expiry
13 September 2023
Consultation start
31 July 2023
Consultation end
21 August 2023
Neighbour consultation start
1 August 2023
Neighbour consultation end
22 August 2023
Last date for comments
13 September 2023
Target decision date
13 October 2023
Permission expires
18 October 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
78 days

Publicity

Site notice start
22 August 2023
Site notice end
13 September 2023

Additional information

Documents
8
Constraints
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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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