878 Middleton Road Chadderton Oldham OL9 9SB
Approved on 27 August 2025
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)8 conditions
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Proposal
Change of Use from residential dwellinghouse (Use class C3) to a children's residential care home (Use class C2) for a maximum of 3 children, with a maximum of 3 carers during the day and maximum of 2 at nights.
- Received
- 20 March 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 9
- Ward
- Chadderton North
- Agent
- MKW Architecture Ltd
- ReceivedReceived20 Mar
- ValidatedValidated15 May
- Consult.Consultation17 Jun
- TargetTarget Date22 Aug
- DecidedDecided27 Aug
Decided in 104 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 878 Middleton Road Chadderton Oldham OL9 9SB. Oldham has handled 758 applications of this type. This one was decided in 160 days, 14 weeks longer 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 58 applications across Chadderton North. We hold 304 applications in total for the OL9 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
- OL9 9SB
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Medium
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 15 May 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 17 June 2025
- Consultation start
- 27 May 2025
- Consultation end
- 17 June 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 27 May 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 17 June 2025
- Last date for comments
- 17 June 2025
- Target decision date
- 22 August 2025
- Permission expires
- 27 August 2028
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- MKW Architecture Ltd
- Architect profile
- MKW ARCHITECTURE LTD
- Agent address
- Suite 51, Earl Business Centre Dowry Street OLDHAM OL8 2PF
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Abiola Labisi
- Statutory period
- 99 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13866937
- Documents
- 14
- Constraints
- 8
Site constraints
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.
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