2 - 4 Whitworth Street West Manchester M1 5WY

EIASCO/24/004EIA Scoping RequestApproved

Outline / PiP

Approved on 21 November 2024

Council decision: Scoping Opinion IssuedDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Request for Scoping opinion under Part 4, Regulation 15 of The Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017 (as amended)

Received: 15 October 2024
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Manchester City Council
Ward: Deansgate Ward

ReceivedReceived15 Oct
ValidatedValidated15 Oct
Consult.Consultation8 Nov
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided21 Nov

Decided in 37 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at 2 - 4 Whitworth Street West Manchester M1 5WY. Manchester has handled 602 applications of this type. This one was decided in 37 days, 3 weeks quicker than Manchester's typical decision time. The site is in 4 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 147 applications across Deansgate Ward. We hold 476 applications in total for the M1 postcode area.

78% of outline 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: M1 5WY
Application type: EIA Scoping Request
Scale / size: Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated: 15 October 2024
Consultation expiry: 8 November 2024
Consultation end: 8 November 2024
Permission expires: 21 November 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent: Deloitte
Agent address: 100 Embankment Cathedral Approach Manchester M3 7FB

Additional information

Comments: 0
Documents: 2

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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.

Source: Manchester

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