Former Co-Operative Building The Birtles Civic Centre Manchester M22 5RF
Approved on 13 June 2025
Delegated (officer decision)
Proposal
CITY COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT Change of use of first and second floor to from Use Class E (Commercial, Business and Service) to F1 (Community Hub) together with associated elevational alterations.
- Received
- 2 April 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 3
- Council
- Manchester City Council
- Ward
- Woodhouse Park Ward
- ReceivedReceived2 Apr
- ValidatedValidated2 Apr
- Consult.Consultation26 Apr
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided13 Jun
Decided in 72 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a planning application for a change of use at Former Co-Operative Building The Birtles Civic Centre Manchester M22 5RF. Manchester has handled 161 applications of this type. This one was decided in 72 days, 2 weeks longer than Manchester's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Woodhouse Park Ward. We hold 1,741 applications in total for the M22 postcode area.
86% of all 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
- M22 5RF
- Application type
- Regulation 3 Consent
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 2 April 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 26 April 2025
- Consultation end
- 26 April 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 26 April 2025
- Permission expires
- 13 June 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Lambert Smith Hampton
- Agent address
- Windmill Green 24 Mount Street Manchester M2 3NN
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-13670193
- Documents
- 30
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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 (22)
flood storage areas, conservation 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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Associated applications
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ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)144260/JO/2025 - 20252 Apr
CITY COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT Change of use of first and second floor to from Use Class E (Commercial, Business…
This applicationApprovedOther142287/VO/2025
Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Manchester
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For applicants and trades
Consultants on this application
- Lambert Smith Hampton · Agent for this application
Contractors near this project
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- Ginger ElectricalElectrician0.5 mi
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