Atlas Chambers Ship Canal House 96 - 98 King Street Manchester M2 4WU
Approved on 9 February 2026
Delegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Creation of a café (Use Class E(a/b)).
- Received
- 17 December 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Manchester City Council
- Ward
- Deansgate Ward
- ReceivedReceived17 Dec
- ValidatedValidated17 Dec
- Consult.Consultation16 Feb
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided9 Feb
Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Atlas Chambers Ship Canal House 96 - 98 King Street Manchester M2 4WU. Manchester has handled 4,194 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days. The site is in the Upper King Street conservation area, with 18 listed buildings nearby. There have been 2 other applications 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.
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
- M2 4WU
- Application type
- Full Application Consent
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 17 December 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 16 February 2026
- Consultation end
- 16 February 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 23 January 2026
- Permission expires
- 9 February 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Savills
- Agent address
- 2 Kingsway Cardiff CF10 3FD
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 3 February 2026
- Site notice end
- 28 January 2026
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Upper King Street
- 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, 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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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: Manchester
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