Merchants Warehouse Castle Street Manchester M3 4LZ
Approved on 19 March 2026
Delegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Discharge of Conditions 3 (Strip Out Methodology) and 4 (Repair Samples and Methodology) of Listed Building Consent 143965/LO/2025.
- Received
- 15 January 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Manchester City Council
- Ward
- Deansgate Ward
- Agent
- Tim Groom Architects
- ReceivedReceived15 Jan
- ValidatedValidated15 Jan
- Consult.Consultation12 Feb
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided19 Mar
Decided in 63 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to discharge conditions at Merchants Warehouse Castle Street Manchester M3 4LZ. Manchester has handled 2,085 applications of this type. This one was decided in 63 days, 7 days longer than Manchester's typical decision time. The site is in the Castlefield conservation area, with 2 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 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 4LZ
- Application type
- Approval of condition application
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 15 January 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 17 February 2026
- Consultation end
- 12 February 2026
- Permission expires
- 19 March 2031
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Tim Groom Architects
- Architect profile
- TIM GROOM ARCHITECTS LTD
- Agent address
- Eastgate 2 Castle Street Manchester M3 4LZ
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 17 February 2026
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
- Conservation area: Castlefield
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.
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© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Manchester
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