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136 Drake Street Rochdale OL16 1PS

25/00058/CPLCertificate of lawful use-ProposedRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 7 April 2025

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for proposed loft conversion

Received
23 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Milkstone And Deeplish
  1. Received23 Jan
  2. Validated10 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target24 Mar
  5. Decided7 Apr

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a loft conversion at 136 Drake Street Rochdale OL16 1PS. Rochdale has handled 602 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 3 weeks longer than Rochdale's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. 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 1PS
Application type
Certificate of lawful use-Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Rochdale Township

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 February 2025
Target decision date
24 March 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
WeStruct
Agent address
180 Ivyfield Road Birmingham B23 7HS United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Comments
0

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (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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