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30 Eastway Shaw Oldham OL2 8NY

CEA/351625/23Cert of Lawful Use/Operation - ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 26 October 2023

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of lawful development for proposed use of the cafe/kitchen area on the ground floor of the building to be used as a cafe and bookshop that is open to the public to be run as a not-for-profit concern as part of the Charity in line with the charitable purposes of the organisation as defined in its governing document. No structural changes are proposed either for the inside or outside of the property.

Received
8 September 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Shaw
  1. Received8 Sep
  2. Validated8 Sep
  3. Consult.13 Nov
  4. Target3 Nov
  5. Decided26 Oct

Decided in 48 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application at 30 Eastway Shaw Oldham OL2 8NY. Oldham has handled 132 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days, 2 weeks quicker than Oldham's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Shaw. We hold 237 applications in total for the OL2 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
OL2 8NY
Application type
Cert of Lawful Use/Operation - Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Shaw And Crompton Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
8 September 2023
Consultation start
23 October 2023
Last date for comments
13 November 2023
Target decision date
3 November 2023
Permission expires
26 October 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12433782
Comments
0
Documents
5
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: Corner of Gainsborough Avenue (Clydesdale Works)Register site at or near this address · +1 more
  • 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, 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 and heritage coasts.

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.

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