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Sandfold Lane Household Waste Recycling Centre Sandfold Lane Manchester M19 3BJ

145608/FO/2026Full planning permissionApproved
Full

Approved on 27 July 2026

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)3 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Retention of the existing site office.

Received
7 April 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Levenshulme
  1. Received7 Apr
  2. Validated7 Apr
  3. Consult.11 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided27 Jul

Decided in 111 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Sandfold Lane Household Waste Recycling Centre Sandfold Lane Manchester M19 3BJ. Manchester has handled 4,194 applications of this type. This one was decided in 111 days, 8 weeks longer than Manchester's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 32 applications across Levenshulme. We hold 883 applications in total for the M19 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
M19 3BJ
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 April 2026
Consultation expiry
11 June 2026
Consultation end
11 June 2026
Application expires
30 July 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
114 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14718032
Comments
0
Documents
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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

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.

© 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.

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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