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Edmund Street Car Park, Edmund Street Car Park, Milnrow, Rochdale, OL16 4HR

NOT/2026/0401Prior notification: Development by telecoms operatorsApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 27 August 2026

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Prior notification for a proposed 23m high telecommunications CU Phosco Phase 6 monopole supporting 6 no. VMO2 antennas, 6 no. VodafoneThree antennas, 30 no. remote radio units, together with equipment housing and associated ancillary development within a palisade fence compound

Submitted
1 May 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Milnrow and Newhey
  1. Received1 May
  2. Validated1 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target8 Jun
  5. Decided27 Aug

Decided in 118 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a telecoms application at Edmund Street Car Park, Edmund Street Car Park, Milnrow, Rochdale, OL16 4HR. Rochdale has handled 30 applications of this type. This one was decided in 118 days, 9 weeks longer than Rochdale's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 24 applications across Milnrow and Newhey. We hold 1,021 applications in total for the OL16 postcode area.

91% of all 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 4HR
Application type
Prior notification: Development by telecoms operators
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Pennines Township

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 May 2026
Target decision date
8 June 2026
Application expires
25 June 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14889615
Documents
23

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 3: High 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

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.

Source: Rochdale

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