3 Bear Hill Rakewood Road Littleborough Rochdale OL15 0AQ Data via plota.co.uk

25/00640/HOUS - Householder planning permission Under Consultation

Proposal

Part-single, part-two-storey rear extension with balcony and glass balustrade to the rear first-floor elevation, formation of garden steps, and alterations to fenestration on the ground and first-floor northeast elevation. Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 26 Oct 2026, 19:46

Application progress

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Received

23 Jun 2025

✓

Validated

8 Sept 2025

Decision

Target date was 3 Nov 2025

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicted a decision around 28 Oct 2026; it is now day 415.

Documents 14

Statements & assessments 2

PDF Supporting Report - 23062025 - DESIGN ACCESS STATEMENT - 2500640HOUS-6688772.pdf PL/01/01 Supporting Report · 5 Dec 2025 View ↗ PDF Supporting Report - 23062025 - HERITAGE IMPACT ASSESSMENT - 2500640HOUS-6688770.pdf PL/01/01 Supporting Report · 5 Dec 2025 View ↗

Plans & drawings 11

Site constraints 11

Green belt: Merseyside and Greater Manchester

Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.

Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.

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Hollingworth Fold Conservation Area conservation area

Demolition needs planning permission and permitted development is restricted.

The council must give weight to preserving or enhancing the area's character and appearance. Not every council has published its boundaries as open data.

Public bridleway about 19 m away

Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.

Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.

Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

1 listed building within 150 m of the postcode pin

Nearest: 3, Bear Hill, Grade II, about 14 m from the postcode pin

The site itself is not listed. Listed building consent is needed for work that affects the special interest of a listed building, inside or out, on top of planning permission. Setting can be a consideration for buildings nearby; there is no fixed radius.

Historic England ↗

Pennine Bridleway about 19 m away

Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site; the route and its margin are protected.

Habitat network: Other Priority Habitats -NEX

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 3; Coalfield, development low risk area; Flood defence about 36 m from the postcode pin (natural high ground, designed for a 1 in 5 year flood); Priority habitat about 27 m away: Deciduous woodland.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 12 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Mining Remediation Authority, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £303,333 in February 2013. Terraced house, freehold.

8 February 2013£303,333

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Council: Rochdale
Application type: Householder planning permission
Postcode: OL15 0AQ
Received: 23 Jun 2025
Validated: 8 Sept 2025
Ward: Littleborough Lakeside
Parish: Pennines Township
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 3 Nov 2025
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Show

Decision outlook

Day 415, past the statutory target. 87% of householder applications in Rochdale are decided within thirteen weeks; extensions of time are common, and the council need not decide on the day. Last seen undecided on 26 Oct 2026.

target

predicted

Day 415359 days past the 56-day target

60%decided within 8 weeks

90%approved

293decided in the last year

Plota live figures for householder applications decided by Rochdale in the last twelve months, from validation. Rochdale decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 26 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Historical activity at this location

8 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025

Listed building consent for part-single, part-two-storey rear extension with balcony and…

25/00641/LBC 23 Jun 2025

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2022 Approved

1 Bear Hill Rakewood Road Littleborough Rochdale OL15 0AQ

Single storey side extension

22/00610/HOUS 13 Dec 2022

2019 Approved

3 Bear Hill Rakewood Road Littleborough OL15 0AQ

Installation of domestic air source heat pump system including an acoustic wall - Resubmi…

19/00612/HOUS 31 Oct 2019

2018 Withdrawn

3 Bear Hill Rakewood Road Littleborough OL15 0AQ

Listed Building Consent for the removal of a biomass heating system to replace with air s…

18/01430/LBC 9 Apr 2019

2018 Withdrawn

3 Bear Hill Rakewood Road Littleborough OL15 0AQ

Removal of a biomass heating system to replace with air source heating system

18/01427/HOUS 9 Apr 2019

2018 Withdrawn

3 Bear Hill Rakewood Road Littleborough OL15 0AQ

Internal refurbishment of ground floor following fire damage and installation of replacem…

18/01192/LBC 18 Dec 2018

2018 Approved

3 Bear Hill Rakewood Road Littleborough OL15 0AQ

Application to fell 4 Ash and works to 2 Sycamore trees within Hollingworth Fold Conserva…

18/00236/WTCA 28 Mar 2018

2017 Approved

Hollingworth Country Park Rakewood Road Littleborough OL15 0AQ

Temporary operation of holiday site.

0196/PDN 28 Sep 2017

Rochdale

Planning Authority Score

2.4/10

Poor

#259 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Rochdale is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #215 out of 296. 52% of applications have the time limit extended, above the 41% national average. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (88%) than the national average (90%).

Slower than most councils

for householder decisions

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Rochdale decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

87%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #176 of 296

88%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #221 of 296

54%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #215 of 296

52%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #237 of 296

81%

Minor dwellings approved

52 decided (1-9 homes)

95%

Major dwellings approved

19 decided (10+ homes)

78%

Change of use approved

60 decided

609

Total decisions

82 refused in the year to March 2026

3 Bear Hill Rakewood Road Littleborough Rochdale OL15 0AQ Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 14

Statements & assessments 2

Plans & drawings 11

Other documents 1

Site constraints 11

Sales history 1

Important details

Decision outlook

Public comments

Previous applications at this address

Nearby activity