Spotted when a home's energy certificate shows at least 15 m² (and 15%) more floor area than an earlier one. Only homes with two certificates show up, so the real number is higher. A busy street suggests extensions get permission here; check the council's planning register for the details.
Storm overflows within 2 km
8storm overflows within 2 km
452hours of spills in 2025 between them (typical neighbourhood: about 36)
70spill events counted
United Utilities
250m Of Ashton Road Bardsley Ps Csointo River Medlock30 spills, 305 hours in 2025
1.7 km away
United Utilities
Snipe Clough Csointo Glodwick Brook20 spills, 93 hours in 2025
650 m away
United Utilities
Coal Pit Lane Csointo River Medlock Via Sws15 spills, 43 hours in 2025
1.7 km away
United Utilities
Hathershaw Csointo River Medlock3 spills, 10 hours in 2025
Footpath From The Spur To Lichens Crescent And Dowry Street At Side Of 36 The Spur, OldhamNew service connection · SP Electricity North West · No carriageway incursion
Oct 2026 to Oct 2026 500 m away
Standard
Mills Farm Close, OldhamNew service connection · United Utilities Water Ltd · No carriageway incursion
Oct 2026 to Oct 2026 500 m away
DfT Street Manager permits (OGL), England. Dates are the planned ones; works often finish early or overrun.
Planning Inspectorate list of nationally significant infrastructure projects (roads, railways, energy, water, waste), October 2026 (OGL). Each is placed at one point, usually the middle of the site; long schemes run well beyond it.
Transport schemes within 20 km
None on our list yet. We're starting with recently opened and under-construction rail schemes.
The longer view
Like-for-like prices in Hathershaw: +61% over five years (2020 → 2025).
Council tax list: 290 homes added in the neighbourhood since April 2024.
Population (GP registrations): +9.0% in two years.
New school: Sapience Girls AcademyOther independent school, other independent school
Feb 2023 1.6 km away
School closed
School closed: Iqra High SchoolOther independent school, other independent school (closure)
Feb 2023 1.8 km away
Planning permission
Permission for 30 homesFormer High Barn Resource Centre, High Barn Street, Royton, Oldham, OL2 6DW (full planning permission)
Jun 2022 550 m away
New-home postcodes with fewer than 5 homes are counted above but not listed. 28 postcodes nearby had new homes completed in the last two years.
Other
Tameside General Hospital - Energy CentrePlanning application in · 2 MW
May 2026 3.9 km away
Rooftop solar
Manor Mill, Victoria Street - Solar PanelsApproved, not yet built · 520 kW
Dec 2022 3.9 km away
Running nearest: Scouthead Power Plant (landfill gas, 5.5 km); Reliance Street Mechanical Biological Treatment Facility (MBT) (anaerobic digestion, 5.6 km); Central Park - Solar photovaltics (rooftop solar, 7.1 km); The National Cycling Centre Velodrome (rooftop solar, 7.3 km); City Football Academy, Ashton New Road - Solar panels (rooftop solar, 7.6 km).
DESNZ Renewable Energy Planning Database, April to June 2026 (OGL). Projects of 150 kW and over; refused, withdrawn and abandoned ones are left out.