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Castlefield Viaduct Between Beaufort Street And Egerton Street Manchester M3 4PU

140876/LO/2024Listed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 4 April 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

LISTED BUILDING CONSENT for works to Castlefield Viaduct to enable its use as an urban park, including the installation of stair and lift access to Egerton Street.

Received
18 September 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Deansgate Ward
Agent
RJP Town Planners
  1. Received18 Sep
  2. Validated18 Sep
  3. Consult.15 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided4 Apr

Decided in 198 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at Castlefield Viaduct Between Beaufort Street And Egerton Street Manchester M3 4PU. Manchester has handled 438 applications of this type. This one was decided in 198 days, 20 weeks longer than Manchester's typical decision time. The site is in the Castlefield conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 147 applications across Deansgate Ward. We hold 795 applications in total for the M3 postcode area.

93% of heritage 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 4PU
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
18 September 2024
Consultation expiry
22 October 2024
Consultation end
15 October 2024
Neighbour consultation end
15 October 2024
Permission expires
4 April 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
RJP Town Planners
Agent address
Windmill Green 24 Mount Street Manchester M2 3NX

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
22 October 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13122547
Documents
91

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Castlefield
  • Listed building: Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway Viaduct, Manchester and SalfordOn or next to this site

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 (21)

flood storage 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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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    22 Jan

    Variation of Condition 2 (Plans) attached to Listed Building Consent 140876/LO/2024

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)145016/JO/2026
  2. 2024
    18 Sep

    LISTED BUILDING CONSENT for works to Castlefield Viaduct to enable its use as an urban park, including the…

    This applicationApprovedListed building consent140876/LO/2024

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