Alness Lodge 50 Alness Road Manchester M16 8HW

PLA-2026-001149Full planning permissionWithdrawn

Full

Withdrawn on 16 October 2026

Delegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of Use from residential care home (use class C2) to SEND school (use class F1a).

Submitted: 21 August 2026
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Manchester City Council
Ward: Whalley Range

ReceivedSubmitted21 Aug
ValidatedValidated21 Aug
Consult.Consultation16 Sep
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided16 Oct

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Alness Lodge 50 Alness Road Manchester M16 8HW. Manchester has handled 4,194 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 56 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 66 applications across Whalley Range. We hold 1,319 applications in total for the M16 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: M16 8HW
Application type: Full planning permission
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 21 August 2026
Consultation expiry: 16 September 2026
Consultation end: 16 September 2026
Application expires: 16 October 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-15041198
Documents: 10

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 3: High 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.

Source: Manchester

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