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92% of the 101 applications for building work Tameside decided since July 2026 were approved; half were decided within 53 days. Plan Forecast, 5 November 2026.
Time to decide: half were decided within 53 days, counted from the day the application was valid (or received, where the register gives no valid date) over the 101 decisions with both dates.
Approval rates by type of work
- Rear extension 92% of 39 decisions
- Two-storey extension 91% of 33 decisions
- Loft conversion or dormer too few to say 9 decisions
- Front porch too few to say 8 decisions
- Side extension too few to say 6 decisions
- Garden room or outbuilding too few to say 4 decisions
- Garage conversion too few to say 1 decisions
- Change of use too few to say 1 decisions
Before you apply
Whether the commonest kinds of work in Tameside need planning permission at all, from the law itself, rule by rule.
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Check your project
Put a pin on your house, describe the work, and see it measured against each permitted development limit, with the clause it comes from. A guide, not a guarantee.
Where Tameside stands
The government's own count, every kind of application together: a different question from the rates above, which are one kind of work at a time. Why the figures differ.
The long view
Recent decisions in Tameside
Straight from the register. Addresses are reduced to the street here; the report you get names the property.
Ashton Road Denton
RefusedPartial change of use of ground floor from Taxi Call Centre (Sui Generis) to Desert Parlour for phone order deliveries only (Sui Generis)
Decided 29 October 2026 25/00986/FUL
Beech Avenue Droylsden
ApprovedSingle storey rear extension. The length of the extension from the rear of the original house 6.00m. Maximum height of the extension 3.80m. Maximum height of eaves 3.00m
Decided 29 October 2026 26/00766/HHPD
Earl Street Denton
ApprovedRaising the bungalow roof height, single storey front extension, front porch and rear extension.
Decided 28 October 2026 26/00508/FUL
Questions people ask
What is Tameside's planning approval rate?
92% of the 101 applications for building work Tameside decided since July 2026 were approved, counting those that went one way or the other. It differs by kind of work.
What percentage of rear extension applications does Tameside approve?
92% of rear extension applications decided by Tameside were approved, over 39 decisions.
How many planning decisions does Plan Forecast hold for Tameside?
231 decided applications, from July 2026 to October 2026, read from Tameside's own planning register.
Is this Tameside's planning website?
No. Plan Forecast is independent of Tameside: we count the decisions on its public planning register. To look up, track or comment on an application, use Tameside's own register, at publicaccess.tameside.gov.uk.
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These are Tameside's figures as a whole. Put in your postcode and we will show you the rate for what you are planning, and the decisions on your own streets.
Figures are counts of published decisions, not planning advice. Every application is judged on its own merits. How these figures are made.