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Former Manchester Metropolitan University Didsbury Campus 799 Wilmslow Road Manchester M20 2RW

141098/JO/2024Variation or Removal of ConditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 1 December 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Variation of conditions 2 (land contamination) and 15 (external lighting) and from planning approval reference 131722/JO/2021 to allow for an amended external lighting scheme at the site and to provide contaminated land reports associated with the development.

Received
27 September 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Didsbury East Ward
  1. Received27 Sep
  2. Validated27 Sep
  3. Consult.24 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided1 Dec

Decided in 430 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Former Manchester Metropolitan University Didsbury Campus 799 Wilmslow Road Manchester M20 2RW. Manchester has handled 2,085 applications of this type. This one was decided in 430 days, 53 weeks longer than Manchester's typical decision time. The site is in the Didsbury St James conservation area, with 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 52 applications across Didsbury East Ward. We hold 639 applications in total for the M20 postcode area.

82% of conditions 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
M20 2RW
Application type
Variation or Removal of Condition
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 September 2024
Consultation expiry
22 November 2024
Consultation end
24 October 2024
Neighbour consultation end
24 October 2024
Permission expires
1 December 2028

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
22 October 2024
Site notice end
22 November 2024

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
22

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 (20)

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, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© 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.

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