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Former Civic Centre West Street Oldham OL1 1UT

EIAP/354094/25EIA Screening Scoping (Public)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 25 March 2025

Council decision: Raised No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Request for an Environmental Impact Assessment Scoping Opinion

Received
12 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Coldhurst
Agent
CBRE Ltd
  1. Received12 Feb
  2. Validated12 Feb
  3. Consult.24 Mar
  4. Target5 Mar
  5. Decided25 Mar

Decided in 41 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application at Former Civic Centre West Street Oldham OL1 1UT. Oldham has handled 132 applications of this type. This one was decided in 41 days, 3 weeks 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 105 applications across Coldhurst. We hold 210 applications in total for the OL1 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
OL1 1UT
Application type
EIA Screening Scoping (Public)
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 February 2025
Consultation expiry
24 March 2025
Consultation start
3 March 2025
Consultation end
24 March 2025
Last date for comments
24 March 2025
Target decision date
5 March 2025
Permission expires
25 March 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent
CBRE Ltd
Agent address
10th Floor One St Peters Square Manchester M2 3DE

Planning decision

Statutory period
21 days

Additional information

Documents
2
Constraints
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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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