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225 Windsor Road Oldham OL8 1AE

CEA/355902/26Cert of Lawful Use/Operation - ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 11 May 2026

Council decision: Granted

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate regarding the use of a house (Class C3a) as a children's home for up to two children, with a manager or Deputy and two carers who would sleep overnight, working on a rota

Received
20 March 2026
Ward
Medlock Vale
Agent
Rose Consulting
  1. Received20 Mar
  2. Validated20 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target15 May
  5. Decided11 May

Decided in 52 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application at 225 Windsor Road Oldham OL8 1AE. Oldham has handled 132 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 11 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 41 applications across Medlock Vale. We hold 271 applications in total for the OL8 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
OL8 1AE
Application type
Cert of Lawful Use/Operation - Proposed
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 March 2026
Target decision date
15 May 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Rose Consulting
Agent address
16 Rhodesia Avenue Halifax HX30PB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14540008
Comments
0
Documents
8
Constraints
9

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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