Middleton Cricket Club Towncroft Avenue Middleton M24 5DA
Refused
Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
The proposed installation of a telecommunications base station comprising a 25m pine tree monopole supporting 6 no. antennas and 2 no. transmission dishes, together with 6 no. equipment cabinets and 1 no. meter cabinet within a new fenced compound and ancillary development thereto.
- Received
- 29 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 6
- Ward
- North Middleton
- ReceivedReceived29 Oct
- ValidatedValidated29 Oct
- Consult.Consultation3 Dec
- TargetTarget Date29 Oct
- DecidedDecided
About this application
This is a telecoms application at Middleton Cricket Club Towncroft Avenue Middleton M24 5DA. Rochdale has handled 30 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 29 October 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in the Middleton Town Centre conservation area. 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.
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Application details
- Postcode
- M24 5DA
- Application type
- Prior notification: Development by telecoms operators
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Middleton Township
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 29 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 6 December 2025
- Consultation start
- 12 November 2025
- Consultation end
- 3 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 12 November 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 6 December 2025
- Last date for comments
- 6 December 2025
- Application expires
- 27 February 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Perry Williams Ltd 112 Dunkirk Avenue Desborough Northamptonshire NN14 6PN United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Decision
- Refuse
- Statutory period
- 121 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 12 November 2025
- Site notice end
- 6 December 2025
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14448596
- Documents
- 27
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Conservation area: Middleton Town Centre Conservation Area
- 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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© 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.
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Source: Rochdale
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