70 Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester, M1 5ES

PLA-2026-000950Full planning permissionApproved

Full

Approved on 20 August 2026

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)9 conditions

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

Proposal

Elevational alterations including new fire escape doors, vehicle doors, glazing manifestation film and louvres.

Submitted: 20 July 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Manchester City Council
Ward: Deansgate

ReceivedSubmitted20 Jul
ValidatedValidated20 Jul
Consult.Consultation12 Aug
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided20 Aug

Decided in 31 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for window replacement at 70 Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester, M1 5ES. Manchester has handled 4,194 applications of this type. This one was decided in 31 days, 4 weeks quicker than Manchester's typical decision time. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 235 applications across Deansgate. We hold 476 applications in total for the M1 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: M1 5ES
Application type: Full planning permission
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 20 July 2026
Consultation expiry: 12 August 2026
Consultation end: 12 August 2026
Application expires: 14 September 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-14971874
Documents: 20

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.

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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13 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Manchester

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