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Oldham Broadway Business Park, Driver And Vehicle Standards Agency Broadgate Chadderton Oldham OL9 9XA

FUL/355257/25Full ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 5 January 2026

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions

Proposal

Installation of external compound unit to house condensers.

Received
23 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Chadderton South
  1. Received23 Oct
  2. Validated1 Dec
  3. Consult.31 Dec
  4. Target26 Jan
  5. Decided5 Jan

Decided in 35 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Oldham Broadway Business Park, Driver And Vehicle Standards Agency Broadgate Chadderton Oldham OL9 9XA. Oldham has handled 758 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 11 days 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 74 applications across Chadderton South. 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 9XA
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 December 2025
Consultation expiry
2 January 2026
Consultation start
8 December 2025
Consultation end
31 December 2025
Neighbour consultation start
9 December 2025
Neighbour consultation end
2 January 2026
Last date for comments
2 January 2026
Target decision date
26 January 2026
Permission expires
5 January 2029

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
McAndrew Martin
Architect profile
MCANDREW MARTIN LIMITED
Agent address
Trafalgar House 11 Acorn Business Centre Northarbour Road Portsmouth PO6 3TH

Planning decision

Case officer
Graham Dickman
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14409035
Comments
0
Documents
9
Constraints
21

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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