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Transmission Building 6 Atherton Street Manchester M3 3GS

PLA-2026-000145Full planning permissionApproved
Full

Approved on 18 August 2026

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)9 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Creation of external roof terrace, including lighting, landscaping and other associated works.

Submitted
30 April 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Deansgate
  1. Received30 Apr
  2. Validated30 Apr
  3. Consult.10 Jun
  4. Target
  5. Decided18 Aug

Decided in 110 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Transmission Building 6 Atherton Street Manchester M3 3GS. Manchester has handled 4,194 applications of this type. This one was decided in 110 days, 8 weeks longer than Manchester's typical decision time. The site is in the Castlefield conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

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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Application details

Postcode
M3 3GS
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 April 2026
Consultation expiry
10 June 2026
Consultation end
10 June 2026
Application expires
25 June 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14877682
Documents
28

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Conservation area: Castlefield
  • Listed building: Grade II: Former Grape Street railway bonded warehouseOn or next to this site
  • Brownfield land register: St John's Living - Nickel & Dime East Tower and Manchester Goods YardRegister site at or near this address · +6 more

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.

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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