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Old Rectory Gardens 1 Mellalieu Street Middleton Rochdale M24 5DN

25/00332/WTCAWorks to Trees-Con AreaApproved

Approved on 30 May 2025

Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application to fell one Silver Birch tree subject to Tree Preservation Order 177 and within Middleton Town Centre Conservation Area due to severe decline

Received
17 March 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
North Middleton
  1. Received17 Mar
  2. Validated17 Mar
  3. Consult.16 Apr
  4. Target21 Apr
  5. Decided30 May

Decided in 74 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Old Rectory Gardens 1 Mellalieu Street Middleton Rochdale M24 5DN. Rochdale has handled 104 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 3 weeks longer than Rochdale's typical decision time. The site is in the Middleton Town Centre conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 20 applications across North Middleton. We hold 441 applications in total for the M24 postcode area.

97% of trees 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
M24 5DN
Application type
Works to Trees-Con Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Middleton Township

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 March 2025
Consultation expiry
16 April 2025
Consultation start
26 March 2025
Consultation end
16 April 2025
Target decision date
21 April 2025
Permission expires
30 May 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Top Oth Meadow Farm Meadowhead Lane Norden Rochdale OL11 5UL

Planning decision

Statutory period
35 days

Additional information

Comments
0

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Middleton Town Centre Conservation Area
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Middleton Town Centre
  • 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 (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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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