Oldham Local Plan Examination | Oldham Local Plan Examination

Oldham Local Plan to 2039 Examination

The Council submitted their Local Plan to the Planning Inspectorate on 14 August 2026.

This page should be viewed alongside the Submission web page Oldham Local Plan Submission | Oldham Local Plan Submission | Oldham Council from which the original submission library may be accessed. The submission library contains a full set of representations submitted at the Local Plan Publication Plan stage.

Further library items will be added to this Examination page as the Examination progresses and representors and other interested parties are encouraged to view it on a regular basis for new items and latest developments.

Latest News

7 September 2026 The Inspectors have asked the Council to respond by 2 October to a series of Initial Questions and these may be viewed in the Examination library at the foot of this webpage. The Council's responses will be added to the library in due course.

The Inspectors

Anne Jordan BA Hons MRTPI and Ben Johnson BA Hons DipTP MRTPI have been appointed to undertake an independent examination into the soundness of the Plan and to subsequently issue a report with their conclusions.

The Programme Officer

All correspondence to or from the Inspectors will be via an independent Programme Officer and Tony Blackburn will fulfill this role. Items should be sent to him, preferably by email:

tony.blackburn@oldham.gov.uk

or alternatively by post to him at the following address:

15 Ottawa Close

Blackburn

BB2 7EB

Additionally he may be contacted by telephone on 07949 020 540.

The Hearings

The Inspectors will hold a series of hearings as part of the Examination process and the timing and location of these will be added to this page in due course. Additionally, the Programme Officer will contact all Publication stage representors with this and other information. Any requests from additional parties should be sent directly to the Programme Officer.

Privacy notices

Oldham's privacy notice tells you what to expect when we collect personal information and your rights in relation to that information.

The Planning Inspectorate provides advice about how the Planning Inspectorate will process any personal information and can be accessed at Customer Privacy Notice – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). It is very important that you read and consider these notices carefully because they explain how your personal information will be used and stored.

Details of the Council's core data protection and commitments are set out in the Council's primary privacy notice and service privacy notice for Strategic Planning and Information. Both are available on the Council's data protection web pages.

Procedure guide for Local Plan examinations

The Planning Inspectorate has also prepared a Procedure Guide for Local Plan Examinations that provides useful guidance on the procedural aspects of examining a local plan.

There is also a document Local plans: taking part in examinations - GOV.UK and is particularly aimed at those taking part in Examinations for the first time.

Further Examination library items

These will be added here as the Examination progresses.