Telephone Exchange Chaucer Street Oldham OL1 1BA
Approved on 10 February 2026
Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)4 conditions
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Proposal
1) Erection of new generator exhaust system 2) Installation of rising exhaust section 3) Installation of roof mounted flue 4) Installation of silencer.
- Received
- 15 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Ward
- Coldhurst
- ReceivedReceived15 Oct
- ValidatedValidated4 Nov
- Consult.Consultation2 Dec
- TargetTarget Date8 Feb
- DecidedDecided10 Feb
Decided in 98 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Telephone Exchange Chaucer Street Oldham OL1 1BA. Oldham has handled 758 applications of this type. This one was decided in 118 days, 8 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 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 1BA
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Medium
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 4 November 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 2 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 11 November 2025
- Consultation end
- 2 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 11 November 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 2 December 2025
- Last date for comments
- 2 December 2025
- Target decision date
- 8 February 2026
- Permission expires
- 10 February 2029
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- Lambert Smith Hampton
- Agent address
- Suite One St Ann's Quay 122 Quayside Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 3BD
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Sophie Leech
- Statutory period
- 96 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13932030
- Documents
- 10
- Constraints
- 18
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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