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Higher House Cottage Thurston Clough Road Delph Oldham OL3 5RE

FUL/355357/25Refused

Refused on 8 June 2026

Council decision: Refuse Permission

Approximate site (title boundary)
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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Demolition of existing garage, stable and tack room and summer house and erection of 1 no. dwelling.

Received
24 November 2025
Ward
Saddleworth North
  1. Received24 Nov
  2. Validated16 Apr
  3. Consult.24 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided8 Jun

Decided in 53 days

About this application

This is a planning application for demolition at Higher House Cottage Thurston Clough Road Delph Oldham OL3 5RE. Oldham has handled 2,103 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 10 days quicker than Oldham's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 75 applications across Saddleworth North. We hold 482 applications in total for the OL3 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
OL3 5RE
Parish
Saddleworth Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 April 2026
Consultation end
24 June 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Dave Richards

Additional information

Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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, conservation areas, 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.

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