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Land At Thorley Lane Woodhouse Park

078993/OO/2006/S2Outline ConsentApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 11 January 2007

Planning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

OUTLINE APPLICATION for the erection of a Class B1 Business Park, totalling 50,185 square metres of floorspace, with associated car parking and landscaping and highway works, including a realigned and improved Thorley Lane/Outwood Lane West junction and improvements to junction 5 of the M56 motorway.

Received
7 April 2006
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Woodhouse Park Ward (2004)
  1. Received7 Apr
  2. Validated7 Apr
  3. Consult.3 May
  4. Target2 Jun
  5. Decided11 Jan

Decided in 279 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Land At Thorley Lane Woodhouse Park. Manchester has handled 602 applications of this type. This one was decided in 279 days, 32 weeks longer than Manchester's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address.

78% of outline applications at Manchester City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Outline Consent
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 April 2006
Consultation expiry
9 May 2006
Consultation start
12 April 2006
Consultation end
3 May 2006
Neighbour consultation start
20 November 2006
Neighbour consultation end
3 May 2006
Target decision date
2 June 2006
Committee meeting
21 December 2006
Permission expires
11 January 2010

Applicant and agent

Agent address
HOW Planning 40 Peter Street Manchester M2 5GP

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
18 April 2006
Advertisement expiry
9 May 2006
Site notice start
18 April 2006
Site notice end
9 May 2006

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

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