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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
4,039 approved · 534 refused · 159 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 28 Sept 2017 to 6 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 11 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
3 Boundary Drive Oldham Oldham OL1 2QD
Received 17 Mar 2022Land At 6 Milk Street Oldham Oldham OL4 2AZ
Received 16 Mar 2022Land At 14 Cedar Street Oldham Oldham OL4 2BW
Received 16 Mar 20221 Lindale Rise Shaw Oldham OL2 8JN
Received 17 Mar 202223 Tandlewood Park Royton Oldham OL2 5UZ
Received 17 Mar 202210 Irk Vale Drive Chadderton Oldham OL1 2TW
Received 18 Mar 2022Outside 13 And 15 Rivington Road Springhead Oldham OL4 4RH
Received 8 Apr 2022Land At Buckstones Road, Shaw, Oldham, OL2 8LJ
Received 18 Mar 2022Ron Kirkman Motors Ladhill Lane Greenfield Oldham OL3 7JW
Received 18 Mar 202270 Gordon Avenue Oldham Oldham OL4 1QA
Received 18 Mar 2022324 Manchester Road Oldham Oldham OL9 7ES
Received 18 Mar 20226 Selby Avenue Chadderton Oldham OL9 0PU
Received 21 Mar 2022Land Adjacent To 100 Broadway Royton Oldham OL2 5BP
Received 20 Mar 202226 Church Street East Oldham Oldham OL4 2JQ
Received 20 Mar 202246 Rivington Road Springhead Oldham OL4 4RJ
Received 20 Mar 20229 Shaws Uppermill Oldham OL3 6JX
Received 21 Mar 202255 Miriam Street Failsworth Oldham M35 0LA
Received 21 Mar 2022Kobe Coffee 36 High Street Uppermill Oldham OL3 6HR
Received 21 Mar 202236 High Street Uppermill Oldham OL3 6HR
Received 21 Mar 2022120 Chadderton Way Oldham Oldham OL1 2EW
Received 21 Mar 202223 Belmont Street Lees Oldham OL4 5BJ
Received 21 Mar 2022Butler Green, Near Wash Brook Chadderton Oldham OL9 8NQ
Received 17 Mar 2022Huddersfield Road Oldham Oldham OL4 2EX
Received 18 Mar 202282 Mossley Road Grasscroft Oldham OL4 4HA
Received 22 Mar 2022Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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