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Smallbridge Business Park, Riverside Drive, Rochdale, OL16 2SH

OTH/2026/0475Approval of details reserved by a conditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 22 October 2026

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Submission of details to comply with conditions 3 (external materials), 4 (retaining wall details), 5 (phase 2 site investigation report), 6 (external lighting), 7 (method statement), 8 (CEMP), 9 (method statement for protection of nesting birds), 10 (bird and bat box locations), 11 (sustainable drainage management plan) and 12 (detail drainage strategy) on planning permission 25/00713/FUL

Submitted
26 May 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Smallbridge and Firgrove
  1. Received26 May
  2. Validated26 May
  3. Consult.
  4. Target18 Jun
  5. Decided22 Oct

Decided in 149 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at SMALLBRIDGE BUSINESS PARK, RIVERSIDE DRIVE, ROCHDALE, OL16 2SH. Rochdale has handled 350 applications of this type. This one was decided in 149 days, 13 weeks longer than Rochdale's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 16 applications across Smallbridge and Firgrove. We hold 1,021 applications in total for the OL16 postcode area.

99% of conditions 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 2SH
Application type
Approval of details reserved by a condition
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Pennines Township

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 May 2026
Target decision date
18 June 2026
Application expires
21 July 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14943882

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 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

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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