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Taylor Cottage Whitworth Square Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8PY

2025/0020/TCAWorks to Trees in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 5 June 2025

Council decision: Approved Tree CADelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Works to trees within Whitworth Square conservation area specifically T1 - Sycamore, fell to ground level.

Received
5 May 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Whitworth
  1. Received5 May
  2. Validated5 May
  3. Consult.9 Jun
  4. Target16 Jun
  5. Decided5 Jun

Decided in 31 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a tree application at Taylor Cottage Whitworth Square Whitworth Rochdale Lancashire OL12 8PY. Rossendale has handled 75 applications of this type. This one was decided in 31 days, 5 weeks quicker than Rossendale's typical decision time. The site is in the Whitworth Square conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 14 applications across Whitworth. We hold 206 applications in total for the OL12 postcode area.

100% of trees applications at Rossendale Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
OL12 8PY
Application type
Works to Trees in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Whitworth Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 May 2025
Consultation expiry
9 June 2025
Consultation start
19 May 2025
Consultation end
9 June 2025
Last date for comments
9 June 2025
Target decision date
16 June 2025
Permission expires
5 June 2027

Applicant and agent

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

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13992783
Documents
3
Constraints
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Whitworth Square Conservation Area
  • Listed building: Grade II: Whitworth HouseOn or next to this site
  • Article 4 direction: Immediate Article 4 Direction for small Houses in Multiple Occupation
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, tree preservation orders, 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: Rossendale

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