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157 Rochdale Road Shaw Oldham OL2 7JN

FUL/356596/26Approved

Approved on 21 September 2026

Council decision: Granted6 conditions

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

Proposal

Change of use of the dwelling (C3 use) to children's residential care home (C2 use) for 1 child/young person.

Received
29 July 2026
Public comments
1 · last counted 4 November 2026
Ward
Crompton
  1. Received29 Jul
  2. Validated29 Jul
  3. Consult.14 Sep
  4. Target
  5. Decided21 Sep

Decided in 54 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at 157 Rochdale Road Shaw Oldham OL2 7JN. Oldham has handled 2,103 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 9 days quicker 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 31 applications across Crompton. We hold 237 applications in total for the OL2 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
OL2 7JN
Parish
Shaw & Crompton Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 July 2026
Consultation end
14 September 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Sophie Leech

Additional information

Documents
5

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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