Stable and Land to the West of Fern Hill Farm, Fern Hill Lane, Lanehead, Rochdale, OL12 6BW Data via plota.co.uk

PL/2026/0631 - Full planning permission Under Consultation

Proposal

Extension and conversion of the existing stable building to create one x 2 bedroom dwelling including the provision of a bin storage area, parking and associated landscaping and works Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 8 Oct 2026, 06:54

Application progress

✓

Received

13 Jul 2026

✓

Validated

5 Oct 2026

Decision

Expected by 30 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. Plota predicts a decision between 30 Nov 2026 and 17 Dec 2026, from Rochdale's recent changes of use.

Documents 22

Statements & assessments 6

PDF Flood Risk Assessment & Drainage Strategy Supporting Report · 24 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Energy Statement Supporting Report · 23 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Coal Mining Risk Assessment.pdf Supporting Report · 20 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Heritage, Planning and Design Statement FINAL.pdf Supporting Report · 21 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF Biodiversity Net Gain Exemption Certificate.pdf Supporting Report · 21 Jul 2026 View ↗ PDF Design Statement July 2026.pdf Supporting Report · 21 Jul 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 14

Application forms 1

PDF Application Form-Redacted.pdf Application Form · 21 Jul 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 9

2 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin

Nearest: Fern Hill First Farmhouse, Grade II, the postcode pin is inside its outline · 2 Grade II

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.

Show all 2 with distances

0 mFern Hill First FarmhouseGrade II
24 mFern Hill CottageGrade II

Historic England ↗

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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Coal mining development high risk area

Recorded coal mining features at or near the surface. Most planning applications here need a coal mining risk assessment. Nearest recorded mine shaft: about 13 m from the postcode pin (reference 387415-001).

From the Mining Remediation Authority, formerly the Coal Authority. The development high risk area marks recorded coal mining features at or near the surface: mine shafts and adits, shallow workings, mine gas and former opencast sites. Most planning applications there need a coal mining risk assessment; householder applications, changes of use and some minor works are exempt. Mine entry positions come from old plans and can be out by several metres, and unrecorded workings can exist anywhere in the coalfield.

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Public footpath about 10 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 5

Very poor quality farmland, not best and most versatile. 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.

Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone

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; National infrastructure project: Calderdale Energy Park, at pre-application; Local nature reserve about 481 m away: Healey Dell.

Not affected

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

Checked on 7 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 Planning Inspectorate, 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.

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Important details

Council: Rochdale
Application type: Full planning permission
Postcode: OL12 6BW
Received: 13 Jul 2026
Validated: 5 Oct 2026
Ward: Norden
Parish: Rochdale North Township
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 30 Nov 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Show

Decision outlook

Day 4 of the 56-day target. Rochdale usually decides changes of use by day 67.

prediction

Day 463 days to the predicted decision (day 67)

43%decided within 8 weeks

80%approved

67decided in the last year

Plota live figures for changes of use decided by Rochdale in the last twelve months, from validation. Rochdale decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 7 Oct 2026

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Historical activity at this location

2 nearby applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2017 Refused

Fern Hill Farm Fern Hill Lane Rochdale OL12 6BW

Application for a Lawful Development Certificate for an existing use to single storey det…

17/01516/CPE 25 Apr 2018

2017

Land West Of Fern Hill Farm Fern Hill Lane Rochdale OL12 6BW

Change of use, conversion and extension of outbuilding to form one dwellinghouse

17/00858/FUL 18 Jul 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