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Unit 7 Nelson Business Centre Nelson Street Denton Tameside M34 3ET

25/00626/P3NNotification Of Part 3 Change of UseRefused
Prior approval

Refused on 1 October 2025

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

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Proposal

Prior Approval application for the change of use of first floor from Commercial, Business and Service (Use Class E) to 1no. self-contained apartment (Use Class C3) under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) - Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA.

Received
28 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Denton North East
Agent
HSH Engineering Design Service Ltd
  1. Received28 Jul
  2. Validated12 Aug
  3. Consult.8 Sep
  4. Target7 Oct
  5. Decided1 Oct

Decided in 50 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Unit 7 Nelson Business Centre Nelson Street Denton Tameside M34 3ET. Tameside has handled 384 applications of this type. This one was decided in 65 days, 2 weeks longer than Tameside's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Denton North East. We hold 685 applications in total for the M34 postcode area.

89% of amendment applications at Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Why it was refused

  1. The site is located in a busy commercial area, with a number of different business uses within the immediate proximity. This results in a noisy surrounding environment. The Council is not satisfied that a suitable standard of residential amenity could be provided within the proposed dwelling, nor that such harm could be sufficiently mitigated. Therefore, the noise impact from surrounding uses upon the potential occupiers of the dwelling is considered to be an unreasonable level of harm, failing to comply with policy JP-P1 of Places for Everyone, policy H10 of the UDP and paragraph 135(f) of the NPPF.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
M34 3ET
Application type
Notification Of Part 3 Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Denton/Audenshaw

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 August 2025
Consultation expiry
11 September 2025
Consultation end
8 September 2025
Neighbour consultation end
3 September 2025
Target decision date
7 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
HSH Engineering Design Service Ltd
Agent address
428 Cheetham Hill Road Manchester M8 9LE

Planning decision

Case officer
Rachel Longden
Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
21 August 2025
Site notice end
11 September 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14207925
Documents
17
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas and tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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