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Land Bounded By Albion Street, Trafford Street And The Rochdale Canal City

082194/FO/2007/C3Full Application ConsentApproved
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Approved on 8 June 2007

Planning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Erection of a 17 storey B1 office building with roof top plant room, ancillary car parking on the G Mex car park deck and a new footbridge over the Rochdale Canal

Received
27 March 2007
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
6
Ward
City Centre Ward (2004)
  1. Received27 Mar
  2. Validated27 Mar
  3. Consult.2 May
  4. Target26 Jun
  5. Decided8 Jun

Decided in 73 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Land Bounded By Albion Street, Trafford Street And The Rochdale Canal City. Manchester has handled 4,194 applications of this type. This one was decided in 73 days, 2 weeks longer than Manchester's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address.

87% of full 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
Full Application Consent
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 March 2007
Consultation expiry
8 May 2007
Consultation start
11 April 2007
Consultation end
2 May 2007
Neighbour consultation start
13 April 2007
Neighbour consultation end
2 May 2007
Target decision date
26 June 2007
Committee meeting
31 May 2007
Permission expires
8 June 2010

Applicant and agent

Agent address
7th Floor The Pinnacle 73 King Street Manchester M2 4NG

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
17 April 2007
Advertisement expiry
8 May 2007
Site notice start
11 April 2007
Site notice end
2 May 2007

Additional information

Documents
28

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (18)

flood storage areas, green belt, 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 and heritage coasts.

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