Museum Of Science And Industry Liverpool Road Manchester M3 4JP

143389/FO/2025Full Application ConsentApproved

Full

Approved on 1 September 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Installation of hard and soft landscaping and the installation of fixed and automated bollards

Received: 7 July 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments: 6
Council: Manchester City Council
Ward: Deansgate Ward
Agent: Buttress Architects Ltd

ReceivedReceived7 Jul
ValidatedValidated7 Jul
Consult.Consultation29 Aug
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided1 Sep

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Museum Of Science And Industry Liverpool Road Manchester M3 4JP. Manchester has handled 4,194 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in the Castlefield conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There have been 14 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.

87% of full 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 4JP
Application type: Full Application Consent
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 7 July 2025
Consultation expiry: 29 August 2025
Consultation end: 29 August 2025
Neighbour consultation end: 8 August 2025
Permission expires: 1 September 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent: Buttress Architects Ltd
Architect profile: BUTTRESS ARCHITECTS LTD
Agent address: 41 Bengal Street Manchester M4 6AF

Publicity

Advertisement expiry: 12 August 2025
Site notice end: 15 August 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-14151166
Documents: 29

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Conservation area: Castlefield
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 (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.

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.

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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9 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Manchester

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