70 Great Bridgewater Street Manchester M1 5ES

143705/LO/2025Listed Building ConsentApproved

Approved on 2 December 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Listed Building Consent for retention guardrails.

Received: 10 October 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments: 1
Council: Manchester City Council
Ward: Deansgate Ward

ReceivedReceived10 Oct
ValidatedValidated10 Oct
Consult.Consultation31 Oct
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided2 Dec

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at 70 Great Bridgewater Street Manchester M1 5ES. Manchester has handled 438 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker than Manchester's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 12 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 147 applications across Deansgate Ward. We hold 476 applications in total for the M1 postcode area.

93% of heritage 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: M1 5ES
Application type: Listed Building Consent
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 10 October 2025
Consultation expiry: 31 October 2025
Consultation end: 31 October 2025
Neighbour consultation end: 1 October 2025
Permission expires: 2 December 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent: Austin-Smith:Lord
Architect profile: AUSTIN-SMITH:LORD LIMITED
Agent address: Port Of Liverpool Building Pier Head Liverpool L3 1BY

Publicity

Advertisement expiry: 7 October 2025
Site notice end: 8 October 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-14011225
Documents: 16

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.

Listed building: Grade II: Rochdale Canal Lock Number 89 (Tib Lock), on South Side of Havelock MillsOn or next to this site
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, conservation 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.

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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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13 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Manchester

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