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Site Off Lord Street Manchester

EIASCO/25/012EIA Scoping RequestApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 8 January 2026

Council decision: Scoping Opinion IssuedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

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

Received
21 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Cheetham Ward
  1. Received21 Nov
  2. Validated21 Nov
  3. Consult.18 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided8 Jan

Decided in 48 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Site Off Lord Street Manchester. Manchester has handled 602 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days, 8 days quicker than Manchester's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 42 applications across Cheetham Ward.

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

Application type
EIA Scoping Request
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 November 2025
Consultation expiry
18 December 2025
Consultation end
18 December 2025
Permission expires
8 January 2031

Applicant and agent

Agent
Ramboll
Agent address
240 Blackfriars Road Lndon SE1 8NW

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
3

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: No 1 Lord Street (Block 10-Lord Street / Cheetham Hill Road)Register 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 (21)

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 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.

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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