Rough Bank Barn Rough Bank Milnrow Rochdale OL16 3QH Data via plota.co.uk

25/01009/LBC - Listed building consent (Alt/Ext) Approved

Proposal

Listed building consent for Change of use from dwellinghouse (Use Class C3) to a residential children's home (Use Class C2), providing care and accommodation for up to four childrens and three carers Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 11 Oct 2026, 06:37

Application progress

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Received

30 Sept 2025

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Validated

20 Oct 2025

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Approved

24 Apr 2026

Approved on 24 Apr 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 10 Oct 2026

Documents 20

Associated applications 2

Listed buildingApproved24 Apr 202625/01009/LBCThis application
Listed building consent for Change of use from dwellinghouse (Use Class C3) to a residential children's home (Use Class C2)…
Conditions 3 awaiting decision
- ConditionsSubmission of details to comply with condition 3 (materials)13 Oct 2026OTH/2026/0938

Site constraints 6

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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Public footpath about 4 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.

2 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin

Nearest: Barn North of Rough Bank Farmhouse, Grade II, about 59 m from the postcode pin · 1 Grade II*, 1 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.

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59 mBarn North of Rough Bank FarmhouseGrade II
68 mRough Bank FarmhouseGrade II*

Historic England ↗

Also on the record

Radon affected area, class 4; Coalfield, development low risk area.

Not affected

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

Checked on 10 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 £450,000 in September 2007. Detached house, freehold.

21 September 2007£450,000

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

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ROUGH BANK BARN, ROUGH BANK, MILNROW, ROCHDALE, OL16 3QH

Submission of details to comply with condition 3 (materials) on planning permiss...

OTH/2026/0938

Important details

Council: Rochdale
Application type: Listed building consent (Alt/Ext)
Postcode: OL16 3QH
Received: 30 Sept 2025
Validated: 20 Oct 2025
Ward: Milnrow and Newhey
Parish: Pennines Township
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 15 Dec 2025
Decision: Approve with Conditions
Decision date: 24 Apr 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show

How this decision compares

Decided in 186 days from validation, 109 days slower than Rochdale's median of 77 for listed building works. Approved, as 100% of listed building works here are.

This one186d

Council77d

UK56d

44%decided within 8 weeks

100%approved

26decided in the last year

Plota live figures for listed building works decided by Rochdale in the last twelve months, from validation. Rochdale decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 10 Oct 2026

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Historical activity at this location

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

This property

Previous applications at this address

2025

Change of use from dwellinghouse (Use Class C3) to a residential children's home (Use Cla…

25/01008/FUL 30 Sep 2025

Rochdale

Planning Authority Score

2.4/10

Poor

#259 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Change of use

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

Rough Bank Barn Rough Bank Milnrow Rochdale OL16 3QH Data via plota.co.uk

Proposal

Application progress

Documents 20

Decision & officer reports 1

Statements & assessments 2

Plans & drawings 13

Consultation & comments 1

Other documents 3