St Thomas Leesfield Infant School West Street Lees Oldham OL4 5BU
Approved on 30 April 2026
Council decision: Granted3 conditions
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Proposal
Inclusion of cranked fencing to raise height of existing wall / fencing to 2.4m in line with safeguarding guidelines for a primary school.
- Received
- 13 February 2026
- Ward
- Saddleworth West And Lees
- Agent
- Bradbury Consulting
- ReceivedReceived13 Feb
- ValidatedValidated5 Mar
- Consult.Consultation31 Mar
- TargetTarget Date30 Apr
- DecidedDecided30 Apr
Decided in 56 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is a full planning application at St Thomas Leesfield Infant School West Street Lees Oldham OL4 5BU. Oldham has handled 758 applications of this type. This one was decided in 76 days, 13 days longer 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 41 applications across Saddleworth West And Lees. We hold 367 applications in total for the OL4 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
- OL4 5BU
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 5 March 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 14 April 2026
- Consultation start
- 10 March 2026
- Consultation end
- 31 March 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 24 March 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 14 April 2026
- Last date for comments
- 14 April 2026
- Target decision date
- 30 April 2026
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- Bradbury Consulting
- Agent address
- Unit 2 The Brickworks Adlington Macclesfield Cheshire SK10 4NL
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Brian Smith
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 19 March 2026
- Advertisement expiry
- 9 April 2026
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Lees
- 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 (21)
flood storage 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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Source: Oldham
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