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Former High Birch School Bolton Road Rochdale OL11 4RA

21/01612/DOCApproval of detail reserved by conditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 1 March 2022

Council decision: Request CompletedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Submission of details to comply with conditions 7 (access details) (part) and 8 (surface water drainage) on planning permission 16/01279/FUL

Received
11 November 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Agent
Building Design and Planning Consultancy
  1. Received11 Nov
  2. Validated11 Nov
  3. Consult.9 Dec
  4. Target23 Dec
  5. Decided1 Mar

Decided in 110 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Former High Birch School Bolton Road Rochdale OL11 4RA. Rochdale has handled 350 applications of this type. This one was decided in 110 days, 8 weeks longer than Rochdale's typical decision time. There have been 4 other applications at this address. We hold 670 applications in total for the OL11 postcode area.

99% of conditions 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
OL11 4RA
Application type
Approval of detail reserved by condition
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 November 2021
Consultation expiry
9 December 2021
Consultation start
18 November 2021
Consultation end
9 December 2021
Last date for comments
9 December 2021
Target decision date
23 December 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent
Building Design and Planning Consultancy
Agent address
5 Chorley Green Farm Barns Chorley Green Nantwich CW5 8JR United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
29

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: High Birch School, Bolton Rd, RochdaleRegister site at or near this address
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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

Also checked, none recorded (22)

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 and heritage coasts.

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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