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Royal Oldham Hospital Rochdale Road Oldham OL1 2JH

FUL/350969/23Full ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 3 July 2023

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

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Proposal

Erection of a Modular Data Centre consisting of a 2-storey building with associated access and service yard for a temporary period of up to five years.

Received
12 May 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Coldhurst
  1. Received12 May
  2. Validated12 May
  3. Consult.10 Jun
  4. Target7 Jul
  5. Decided3 Jul

Decided in 52 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Royal Oldham Hospital Rochdale Road Oldham OL1 2JH. Oldham has handled 758 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 have been 5 other applications 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.

90% of full 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 2JH
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 May 2023
Consultation expiry
14 June 2023
Consultation start
19 May 2023
Consultation end
10 June 2023
Neighbour consultation start
23 May 2023
Neighbour consultation end
14 June 2023
Last date for comments
14 June 2023
Target decision date
7 July 2023
Permission expires
3 July 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Arup
Agent address
3 Piccadilly Place Manchester M1 3BN United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11923292
Documents
20
Constraints
6

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    28 Jul

    Permission is sought for the permanent retention of the 2-storey Modular Data Centre as approved under…

    ApprovedApplicationRelatedFUL/356595/26
  2. 2023
    12 May

    Erection of a Modular Data Centre consisting of a 2-storey building with associated access and service yard…

    This applicationApprovedFullFUL/350969/23

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