Museum Of Science And Industry Liverpool Road Manchester M3 4JP

CDN/25/0866Approval of condition applicationRefused

Discharge / amendments

Refused on 28 November 2025

Council decision: Approved and RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Discharge of conditions 3 (CMP), 4 (Drainage), 6 (Bollard Specification), 7 (Cobble and Bollard Interface), 8 (Timber Tiered Retaining Wall) and 10 (Setts/Flag/Paving Details) attached to planning permission 143389/FO/2025.

Received: 11 September 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments: 4
Council: Manchester City Council
Ward: Deansgate Ward
Agent: Buttress Architects Ltd

ReceivedReceived11 Sep
ValidatedValidated11 Sep
Consult.Consultation14 Nov
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided28 Nov

Decided in 78 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Museum Of Science And Industry Liverpool Road Manchester M3 4JP. Manchester has handled 2,085 applications of this type. This one was decided in 78 days, 3 weeks longer than Manchester's typical decision time. The site is in the Castlefield conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There have been 14 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 147 applications across Deansgate Ward. We hold 795 applications in total for the M3 postcode area.

82% of conditions 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: M3 4JP
Application type: Approval of condition application
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 11 September 2025
Consultation expiry: 14 November 2025
Consultation end: 14 November 2025
Permission expires: 28 November 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent: Buttress Architects Ltd
Architect profile: BUTTRESS ARCHITECTS LTD
Agent address: 41 Bengal Street Manchester M4 6AF

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-14323958
Documents: 15

Site constraints

Checking the site

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Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Conservation area: Castlefield
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 (21)

flood storage 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.

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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