Acresfield Building St Anns Square Manchester M2 7HA
Approved on 28 January 2008
Delegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Alterations to facade of Acresfield Building to include ground floor retail frontages (Use Class A1) facing Exchange Street and Barton Street and revised upper floor detailing
- Received
- 3 December 2007
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Manchester City Council
- Ward
- City Centre Ward (2004)
- ReceivedReceived3 Dec
- ValidatedValidated3 Dec
- Consult.Consultation4 Jan
- TargetTarget Date28 Jan
- DecidedDecided28 Jan
Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Acresfield Building St Anns Square Manchester M2 7HA. Manchester has handled 4,194 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in the St Ann's Square conservation area, with 9 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 516 applications in total for the M2 postcode area.
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
- Postcode
- M2 7HA
- Application type
- Full Application Consent
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 3 December 2007
- Consultation expiry
- 8 January 2008
- Consultation end
- 4 January 2008
- Neighbour consultation start
- 14 December 2007
- Neighbour consultation end
- 4 January 2008
- Target decision date
- 28 January 2008
- Permission expires
- 28 January 2011
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 5 New York Street Manchester M1 4JB
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 18 December 2007
- Advertisement expiry
- 8 January 2008
- Site notice start
- 13 December 2007
- Site notice end
- 3 January 2008
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: St Ann's Square
- Brownfield land register: 8-14 St Anns Square ManchesterRegister site at or near this address
- 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 (19)
flood storage areas, 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 and heritage coasts.
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