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Atlas Chambers Ship Canal House 96 - 98 King Street Manchester M2 4WU

144062/LO/2025Listed Building ConsentRefused

Refused on 17 February 2026

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Listed Building Consent for the installation of signage, internal and external alterations and associated works.

Received
6 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Deansgate Ward
  1. Received6 Jan
  2. Validated6 Jan
  3. Consult.29 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided17 Feb

Decided in 42 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application for signage at Atlas Chambers Ship Canal House 96 - 98 King Street Manchester M2 4WU. Manchester has handled 438 applications of this type. This one was decided in 42 days, 2 weeks quicker than Manchester's typical decision time. 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.

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
M2 4WU
Application type
Listed Building Consent
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 January 2026
Consultation expiry
12 February 2026
Consultation end
29 January 2026
Neighbour consultation end
29 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Savills
Agent address
2 Kingsway Cardiff CF10 3FD

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
3 February 2026
Site notice end
12 February 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14287157
Comments
0
Documents
37

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Upper King Street
  • Listed building: Grade II: Atlas ChambersOn this site · +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, 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

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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Associated applications

  1. 2026
    6 Jan

    Installation of 2no internally illuminated projecting signs together with external vinyl.

    RefusedAdvertisement consentFiled alongside144061/AO/2025
  2. 2026
    6 Jan

    Listed Building Consent for the installation of signage, internal and external alterations and associated…

    This applicationRefusedListed building consent144062/LO/2025

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2025
    17 Dec

    Creation of a café (Use Class E(a/b)).

    ApprovedFull Application Consent144060/FO/2025

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