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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.
4,107 approved · 538 refused · 163 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
In The Footway Of Glebe Street To The Left Of The Car Park Entrance Shaw Oldham OL2 7SL
Received 4 Sept 2023In The Footway Of Middleton Road On The Opposite Side Of The Road To The Boundary Of Numbers 913 And 915 Middleton Road Chadderton Oldham OL9 0NG
Received 4 Sept 2023In The Grass Verge Of Athens Way To The Right Of The Entrance To Brook Lane Lees Oldham OL4 3FL
Received 4 Sept 20239 Melling Road Oldham OL4 1PL
Received 4 Sept 2023In The Grass Verge Of Burnley Lane On The Opposite Side Of The Lane To Number 496/498 Chadderton Oldham OL1 2QT
Received 4 Sept 2023In The Grass Verge Of Wildmoor Avenue At The Rear Of 129 Lees New Road Oldham OL4 5PW
Received 4 Sept 2023Land At Former Site Of Rutland Mill, Site A Linney Lane Shaw Oldham OL2 8HF
Received 5 Sept 20238 Thornley Crescent Grotton Oldham OL4 5QX
Received 5 Sept 2023Chadderton Town Hall Middleton Road Chadderton Oldham OL9 6PP
Received 5 Sept 202318 Tamworth Street Oldham OL9 7QY
Received 5 Sept 20232B Lacrosse Avenue Oldham OL8 4LU
Received 6 Sept 2023Unit 1 43 Radcliffe Street Royton Oldham OL2 6QL
Received 6 Sept 2023158 Rochdale Road Royton Oldham OL2 6QF
Received 6 Sept 2023Opposite 2 Rigi Mount Fir Lane Royton Oldham OL2 6TE
Received 29 Aug 2023Outside Thorns Clough Diggle Oldham OL3 5NF
Received 30 Aug 2023The Old Gasworks Higginshaw Lane Royton Oldham OL2 6HQ
Received 7 Sept 2023St Margarets Gardens Vicarage Street Oldham OL8 4QA
Received 7 Sept 20238 Green View Chase Grotton Oldham OL4 5QN
Received 7 Sept 202313 Denmark Way Chadderton Oldham OL9 6SD
Received 7 Sept 2023St Pauls Cricket Club Mark Lane Shaw Oldham OL2 8QG
Received 7 Sept 20231 Westhulme Avenue Oldham OL1 2PN
Received 7 Sept 202314 Rose Hey Lane Failsworth Oldham M35 0PW
Received 8 Sept 2023Land On Delph New Road Oldham OL3 5BY
Received 8 Sept 202330 Eastway Shaw Oldham OL2 8NY
Received 8 Sept 2023Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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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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