Development Site Red Lion Street/2 Union Street Manchester M4 1PT
Approved on 4 September 2025
Delegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Variation of condition 3 (Approved drawings and Documents) attached to planning permission 113713/FO/2016 as amended by 119143/NMC/2018 to amend the mix of 1 bed and 2 bed apartments, create new additional internal staircase for fire safety reasons, replacement of inset balconies to Church Street and Red Lion Street elevations with Juliet balconies and insertion of a fire door.
- Received
- 14 February 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Manchester City Council
- Ward
- Piccadilly Ward
- Agent
- Paul Butler Associates Ltd
- ReceivedReceived14 Feb
- ValidatedValidated14 Feb
- Consult.Consultation12 Mar
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided4 Sep
Decided in 202 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to vary a condition at Development Site Red Lion Street/2 Union Street Manchester M4 1PT. Manchester has handled 2,085 applications of this type. This one was decided in 202 days, 21 weeks longer than Manchester's typical decision time. The site is in the Smithfield conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 74 applications across Piccadilly Ward. We hold 261 applications in total for the M4 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
- M4 1PT
- Application type
- Variation or Removal of Condition
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 14 February 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 18 March 2025
- Consultation end
- 12 March 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 12 March 2025
- Permission expires
- 4 September 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Paul Butler Associates Ltd
- Agent address
- 31 Blackfriars Road Salford M3 7AQ
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 18 March 2025
- Site notice end
- 12 March 2025
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Smithfield
- Brownfield land register: Red Lion Street / 2 Union StreetRegister site at or near this address · +2 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 (20)
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 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.
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