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S P Astley Funeral Directors 74 - 76 Micklehurst Road Mossley Tameside OL5 9JQ

25/00874/P3NNotification Of Part 3 Change of UseRefused
Prior approval

Refused on 20 January 2026

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

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

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

Received
23 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Mossley
Agent
Hourigan Planning
  1. Received23 Oct
  2. Validated25 Nov
  3. Consult.22 Dec
  4. Target20 Jan
  5. Decided20 Jan

Decided in 56 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at S P Astley Funeral Directors 74 - 76 Micklehurst Road Mossley Tameside OL5 9JQ. Tameside has handled 384 applications of this type. This one was decided in 89 days, 6 weeks longer than Tameside's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 29 applications across Mossley. We hold 639 applications in total for the OL5 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 proposed change of use does not comply with the requirements of the Government's 'Technical Housing Standards - Nationally Described Space Standard' from March 2015 (read together with the notes dated 19th May 2016 which apply to it). Subsections 9A and 9B of Paragraph 3, Article 3 of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) states that no proposed development benefits from the Permitted Development rights set out in Schedule 2 that does not comply with the provisions of the Technical Housing Standards document.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
OL5 9JQ
Application type
Notification Of Part 3 Change of Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Mossley

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 November 2025
Consultation expiry
25 December 2025
Consultation end
22 December 2025
Neighbour consultation end
22 December 2025
Target decision date
20 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
Hourigan Planning
Agent address
10th Floor Chancery Place, 50 Brown Street, Manchester, M2 2JG

Planning decision

Case officer
Kristina Myers
Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
4 December 2025
Site notice end
25 December 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14427199
Documents
12
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.

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.

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