Fourth Floor Ship Canal House 96 - 98 King Street Manchester M2 4WU
Approved on 20 January 2026
Delegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Listed Building Consent for internal alterations to fourth floor offices, and internal refurbishment of fourth floor lift lobby and WCs.
- Received
- 25 November 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Manchester City Council
- Ward
- Deansgate Ward
- Agent
- Heritage Architecture Ltd
- ReceivedReceived25 Nov
- ValidatedValidated25 Nov
- Consult.Consultation24 Dec
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided20 Jan
Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a heritage application at Fourth Floor Ship Canal House 96 - 98 King Street Manchester M2 4WU. Manchester has handled 438 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in the Upper King Street conservation area, with 19 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application 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
- 25 November 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 2 January 2026
- Consultation end
- 24 December 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 24 December 2025
- Permission expires
- 20 January 2029
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Heritage Architecture Ltd
- Agent address
- 62 British Grove Chiswick W4 2NL
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 2 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.
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Associated applications
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Discharge of Condition 3 (Demolition and Historic Entrance) of Listed Building Consent 144512/LO/2025
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Manchester
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