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OTH/2026/0826 - Approval of details reserved by a condition Under Consultation

Proposal

Submission of details to comply with condition 16 (Verification Reports) planning permission Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓

Received

14 Sept 2026

Decision

Expected by 9 Nov 2026

Under consideration

No decision has been issued yet. A decision is expected by 9 Nov 2026.

Documents 7

Plans & drawings 6

PDF Plots 6, 7, 43 and 51 - Gas Verification Report.pdf Plan · 14 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Plots 3-5, 8 and 9 Gas Verification Report.pdf Plan · 14 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Plots 95-104 Gas Verification Report.pdf Plan · 14 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Plots 44 to 50 Gas Verification Report.pdf Plan · 14 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Clean Cover Soil Validation Peport - Plots 95 to 104 Inclusive.pdf Plan · 14 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF Plots 43 to 51 Inclusive Soil Validation Report.pdf Plan · 14 Sept 2026 View ↗

Site constraints 8

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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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.

Special area of conservation about 205 m away: Rochdale Canal

Work nearby can need a habitats assessment.

Harm to a protected site is only accepted where there is no alternative and an overriding public interest.

Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 1

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

Radon affected area, class 5

An estimated 10 to 30% of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.

From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.

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Also on the record

SSSI about 205 m away: Rochdale Canal SSSI; Coalfield, development low risk area; National infrastructure project about 1602 m away: Calderdale Energy Park, at pre-application.

Not affected

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

Checked on 6 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: Approval of details reserved by a condition
Received: 14 Sept 2026
Validated: 14 Sept 2026
Ward: Littleborough Lakeside
Parish: Pennines Township
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 9 Nov 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Agent: David Whalley

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 7 Oct 2026

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Rochdale

Planning Authority Score

2.4/10

Poor

#259 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Major dwellings

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

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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