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The Site Is A Section Of Wood Street (Vehicular Road With Footpaths) Ashton-under-lyne Tameside OL6 6AL

26/00172/FULApproved

Approved on 20 April 2026

Council decision: Permit Full Planning Permission

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

PROPOSED ERECTION OF A MOCK BRIDGE WITH CHARACTER FIGURES HANGING FROM IT WHICH IS A REPRESENTATION OF A SCENE FROM AN ICONIC FILM, THIS WILL BE SUPPORTED AT EACH END BY PROPERTIES OWNED BY THE APPLICANT, THE FIGURES HANGING BELOW THE BRIDGE WILL HAVE A CLEAR HEIGHT OF 4M BELOW ALLOWING FOR UNOBSTRUCTED VEHICLE ACCESS.

Received
26 February 2026
Ward
Croston, Mawdesley And Euxton South
  1. Received26 Feb
  2. Validated20 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided20 Apr

Decided in 59 days

About this application

This is a planning application at The Site Is A Section Of Wood Street (Vehicular Road With Footpaths) Ashton-under-lyne Tameside OL6 6AL. Tameside has handled 5,470 applications of this type. The site is in the Ashton Town Centre conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 2 applications across Croston, Mawdesley And Euxton South. We hold 558 applications in total for the OL6 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
OL6 6AL
Parish
Mawdesley

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Amy Aspinall

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Ashton Town Centre
  • 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: 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.

Source: Tameside

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