Unit 5 Barton Arcade 48 Barton Square Deansgate Manchester M3 2BH
Approved on 15 May 2026
Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Discharge of Conditions 3 (Partition Glazing), 4 (Bench Seating) 5 (Ceilings), 6 (Finishes) and 7 (Windows) of Listed Building Consent 144382/LO/2025.
- Received
- 2 March 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Manchester City Council
- Ward
- Deansgate
- Agent
- Paul Butler Associates
- ReceivedReceived2 Mar
- ValidatedValidated2 Mar
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided15 May
Decided in 74 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an application to discharge conditions at Unit 5 Barton Arcade 48 Barton Square Deansgate Manchester M3 2BH. Manchester has handled 2,085 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 3 weeks longer than Manchester's typical decision time. The site is in the St Ann's Square conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 239 applications across Deansgate. We hold 797 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 2BH
- Application type
- Approval of details reserved by a condition
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 2 March 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 4 April 2026
- Application expires
- 27 April 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Paul Butler Associates
- Agent address
- 31 Blackfriars Road Salford M3 7AQ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Advertisement expiry
- 31 March 2026
- Site notice end
- 4 April 2026
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: St Ann's Square
- Brownfield land register: 8-14 St Anns Square ManchesterRegister site at or near this address
- 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.
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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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
Source: Manchester
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Consultants on this application
- Paul Butler Associates Ltd · Agent for this application
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