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Giantsfoot Facility Eafield Road Rochdale OL16 2TH

21/00846/DEMPrior approval Part 11 Class B: Demolition of buildingsApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 8 July 2021

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior approval for the demolition of a steel frame portal building with brick and block walls on a concrete slab

Received
7 June 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Smallbridge and Firgrove
  1. Received7 Jun
  2. Validated10 Jun
  3. Consult.9 Jul
  4. Target9 Jul
  5. Decided8 Jul

Decided in 28 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Giantsfoot Facility Eafield Road Rochdale OL16 2TH. Rochdale has handled 602 applications of this type. This one was decided in 31 days, 4 weeks quicker than Rochdale's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 16 applications across Smallbridge and Firgrove. We hold 1,021 applications in total for the OL16 postcode area.

92% of outline applications at Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
OL16 2TH
Application type
Prior approval Part 11 Class B: Demolition of buildings
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Pennines Township

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 June 2021
Consultation expiry
9 July 2021
Consultation start
18 June 2021
Consultation end
9 July 2021
Last date for comments
9 July 2021
Target decision date
9 July 2021
Application expires
8 July 2021
Permission expires
8 July 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
29 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-09874588
Comments
0
Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site

Not published by this council, so not checked: tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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

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© 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.

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Source: Rochdale

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