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AGR/356598/26 - Agricultural Notification Approved

Proposal

Erection of a general purpose Agricultural Building with associated engineering works Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 8 Oct 2026, 02:30

Application progress

✓

Received

29 Jul 2026

✓

Validated

5 Aug 2026

✓

Consultation

10 Aug 2026

✓

Approved

2 Sept 2026

Approved on 2 Sept 2026 · Development Control Delegation · Last checked 2 Sept 2026

Documents 14

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF OFFICER REPORT Report · 2 Sept 2026 View ↗ PDF DECISION NOTICE NOT REQ AGRIC. NOTIFI Decision · 2 Sept 2026 View ↗

Statements & assessments 1

PDF PLANNING STATEMENT 18TH JULY 2026 Planning statement · 28 Jul 2026 View ↗

Plans & drawings 10

Application forms 1

PDF APPLICATIONFORMREDACTED Application Form · 28 Jul 2026 View ↗

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 7

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 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 4

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) agrees.

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 Enhancement Zone 2

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 4; 3 listed buildings within 150 m of the postcode pin; Coalfield, development low risk area.

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 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: Oldham
Application type: Agricultural Notification
Postcode: OL3 5RL
Received: 29 Jul 2026
Validated: 5 Aug 2026
Ward: Saddleworth North
Parish: Saddleworth Parish Council
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 2 Sept 2026
Decision: Prior Approval Not Required
Decision date: 2 Sept 2026
Decision level: Development Control Delegation
Applicant: Show
Agent: Mark Jones Planning Consultancy

How this decision compares

Decided in 28 days from validation, 7 days faster than Oldham's median of 35 for prior approvals. Approved, as 94% of prior approvals here are.

This one28d

Council35d

UK33d

90%decided within 8 weeks

94%approved

82decided in the last year

Plota live figures for prior approvals decided by Oldham in the last twelve months, from validation. Oldham decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

1 neighbour consulted · Last counted 2 Sept 2026

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Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-15086739
Planning Portal ref: PP-15086739
Neighbours: 10 Aug 2026
Consultation: 10 Aug 2026
Comments by: 31 Aug 2026
Statutory expiry: 2 Sept 2026
Env. assessment: No

Oldham

Planning Authority Score

2.3/10

Poor

#262 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Householder decisions

Oldham is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #257 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 59% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (92%) than the national average (90%).

Frequently extends decision deadlines

expect longer than the statutory limit

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

Oldham decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

89%

Overall approval rate

Above avg (87%) #140 of 296

92%

Householder approved

Above avg (90%) #162 of 296

44%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #257 of 296

59%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #265 of 296

74%

Minor dwellings approved

47 decided (1-9 homes)

86%

Major dwellings approved

14 decided (10+ homes)

87%

Change of use approved

89 decided

821

Total decisions

93 refused in the year to March 2026