St Margarets Chambers 5 Newton Street Manchester M1 1HL
Approved on 29 December 2025
Delegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Listed Building Consent for the conversion of existing language school into 12 no. apartments.
- Received
- 1 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Manchester City Council
- Ward
- Piccadilly Ward
- ReceivedReceived1 Oct
- ValidatedValidated1 Oct
- Consult.Consultation3 Nov
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided29 Dec
Decided in 89 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a heritage application at St Margarets Chambers 5 Newton Street Manchester M1 1HL. Manchester has handled 438 applications of this type. This one was decided in 89 days, 5 weeks longer than Manchester's typical decision time. The site is in the Stevenson Square conservation area, with 19 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 74 applications across Piccadilly 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 1HL
- Application type
- Listed Building Consent
- Scale / size
- Large
- Number of dwellings
- 12
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 1 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 11 November 2025
- Consultation end
- 3 November 2025
- Permission expires
- 29 December 2028
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Atelier MB
- Architect profile
- ATELIER MB LTD
- Agent address
- Suite 2A Amazon House Brazil Street Manchester M1 3PW
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 11 November 2025
- Site notice end
- 6 November 2025
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Stevenson Square
- Brownfield land register: St Margarets Chambers 5 Newton Street M1 1HLRegister site at or near this address · +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 (19)
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 and heritage coasts.
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Associated applications
- 20251 Oct
Creation of 12 no. residential apartments (Use Class C3a) and associated external works.
ApprovedFull Application ConsentFiled alongside144155/FO/2025 - 20251 Oct
Listed Building Consent for the conversion of existing language school into 12 no. apartments.
This applicationApprovedListed building consent144156/LO/2025
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