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Town Hall Albert Square Manchester M2 5DB

141103/TCA/2024Works to trees in Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 3 December 2024

Council decision: No ObjectionDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Works to trees - proposed pruning works to 4 London trees.

Received
25 September 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Deansgate Ward
  1. Received25 Sep
  2. Validated25 Sep
  3. Consult.23 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided3 Dec

Decided in 69 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at Town Hall Albert Square Manchester M2 5DB. Manchester has handled 614 applications of this type. This one was decided in 69 days, 13 days longer than Manchester's typical decision time. The site is in the Albert Square conservation area, with 17 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 147 applications across Deansgate Ward. We hold 516 applications in total for the M2 postcode area.

99% of trees 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 5DB
Application type
Works to trees in Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 September 2024
Consultation expiry
23 October 2024
Consultation end
23 October 2024
Permission expires
3 December 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13433215
Comments
0
Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Albert Square
  • Listed building: Grade I: Albert MemorialOn this site · +9 more
  • Brownfield land register: Waldorf House, Cooper StreetRegister site at or near this address · +1 more
  • 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.

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

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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.

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