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The Firs Vale Lane Failsworth Oldham M35 9WG

FUL/355259/25Approved

Approved on 22 May 2026

Council decision: Granted, subject to legal agreement5 conditions

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

Proposal

Change of use of existing outbuilding to create one dwellinghouse and erection of a single storey extension to the north elevation.

Received
24 October 2025
Ward
Failsworth East
  1. Received24 Oct
  2. Validated28 Nov
  3. Consult.22 Dec
  4. Target22 May
  5. Decided22 May

Decided in 175 days

About this application

This is a planning application for an outbuilding at The Firs Vale Lane Failsworth Oldham M35 9WG. Oldham has handled 2,103 applications of this type. This one was decided in 175 days, 16 weeks longer than Oldham's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 54 applications across Failsworth East. We hold 141 applications in total for the M35 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
M35 9WG
Parish
Not Available

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 November 2025
Consultation end
22 December 2025
Target decision date
22 May 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Sophie Leech

Additional information

Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Bottom of Woodhouses
  • Green belt: Oldham
  • 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 (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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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