The New St Johns Building New Quay Street Manchester M3 3BE
Refused on 19 February 2025
Council decision: Approved and RefusedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Retention of 2no. internally illuminated individual letter signs, 2no. new internally illuminated projection signs, and 2no. internally illuminated new menu cases.
- Received
- 7 May 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Council
- Manchester City Council
- Ward
- Deansgate Ward
- Agent
- Optimum signs Ltd
- ReceivedReceived7 May
- ValidatedValidated7 May
- Consult.Consultation1 Jun
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided19 Feb
Decided in 288 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an advertising consent application at The New St Johns Building New Quay Street Manchester M3 3BE. Manchester has handled 608 applications of this type. This one was decided in 288 days, 33 weeks longer than Manchester's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 147 applications across Deansgate Ward. We hold 797 applications in total for the M3 postcode area.
71% of advertising 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
- M3 3BE
- Application type
- Advertisement Consent
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 7 May 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 1 June 2024
- Consultation end
- 1 June 2024
- Neighbour consultation end
- 1 June 2024
- Permission expires
- 19 February 2030
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Optimum signs Ltd
- Agent address
- Unit A122 Tustin Longridge Road Preston PR2 5LX
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13003586
- Documents
- 5
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Brownfield land register: St John's Place Tower (Globe & Simpson site)Register site at or near this address
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
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Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.
Also checked, none recorded (21)
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