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Ken Mills Engineering Co New Street Rochdale OL12 6NS

25/01096/PRA56Prior approval - Commercial, business and service uses to dwellinghousesApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 23 January 2026

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)7 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior approval for change of use from commercial, business and service (Class E) to 12 residential flats (Class C)

Received
28 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Healey
  1. Received28 Oct
  2. Validated28 Oct
  3. Consult.28 Nov
  4. Target30 Nov
  5. Decided23 Jan

Decided in 87 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Ken Mills Engineering Co New Street Rochdale OL12 6NS. Rochdale has handled 602 applications of this type. This one was decided in 87 days, 4 weeks longer than Rochdale's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 23 applications across Healey. We hold 206 applications in total for the OL12 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
OL12 6NS
Application type
Prior approval - Commercial, business and service uses to dwellinghouses
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
12
Parish
Rochdale Township

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 October 2025
Consultation expiry
30 November 2025
Consultation start
7 November 2025
Consultation end
28 November 2025
Neighbour consultation start
4 November 2025
Neighbour consultation end
28 November 2025
Last date for comments
30 November 2025
Target decision date
30 November 2025
Application expires
23 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
JAMES CAMPBELL ASSOCIATES LTD CAMPBELL HOUSE 173 ROCHDALE RD FIRGROVE, MILNROW Rochdale Lancashire OL16 3BN United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
87 days

Publicity

Site notice start
6 November 2025
Site notice end
30 November 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14444125
Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: New Street Works, New Street, 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

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© 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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