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New Century Hall 34 Hanover Street Manchester M4 4AH

PLA-2026-000401Listed building consent (Alt/Ext)Approved
Listed building consent

Approved on 10 September 2026

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)8 conditions

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Listed Building Consent for internal alterations to allow for creation of ground floor music venue.

Submitted
20 July 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Piccadilly
  1. Received20 Jul
  2. Validated20 Jul
  3. Consult.13 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided10 Sep

Decided in 52 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a heritage application at New Century Hall 34 Hanover Street Manchester M4 4AH. Manchester has handled 438 applications of this type. This one was decided in 52 days, 4 days quicker than Manchester's typical decision time. The site is in 7 listed buildings nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 104 applications across Piccadilly. We hold 261 applications in total for the M4 postcode area.

93% of heritage 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
M4 4AH
Application type
Listed building consent (Alt/Ext)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 July 2026
Consultation expiry
13 August 2026
Consultation end
13 August 2026
Application expires
14 September 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14936228
Documents
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

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, 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.

© 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.

Source: Manchester

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