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Units 5 and 6 Ifco Centre 40-44 Wilmslow Road Manchester M14 5TQ

PLA-2026-000133Full planning permissionRefused
Full

Refused on 3 November 2026

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Installation of a new shopfront to an existing restaurant unit, including the infill of the recessed frontage using existing structural brick piers and installation of full-height aluminium framed glazing

Submitted
22 June 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Moss Side
  1. Received22 Jun
  2. Validated22 Jun
  3. Consult.9 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided3 Nov

Decided in 134 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for window replacement at Units 5 and 6 Ifco Centre 40-44 Wilmslow Road Manchester M14 5TQ. Manchester has handled 4,194 applications of this type. This one was decided in 134 days, 11 weeks longer than Manchester's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 30 applications across Moss Side. We hold 237 applications in total for the M14 postcode area.

87% of full applications at Manchester City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Why it was refused

  1. By reason of its inappropriate design, the proposal would result in a visually cluttered and inappropriate design to the original building and would therefore detract from the appearance of the host building and surrounding street scene, therefore is contrary to Policy DM1 and SP1 of the Manchester's Core Strategy Development Plan Document, National Planning Policy Framework Policy DP3 and S3, Places for Everyone Policy JP-P1 and The MCC Shopfront and Design Guide (2024).

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
M14 5TQ
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 June 2026
Consultation expiry
9 June 2026
Consultation end
9 June 2026
Application expires
17 August 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14897119
Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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

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© 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.

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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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