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Fifth Floor Ship Canal House 96-98 King Street Manchester M2 4WU

PLA-2026-001934Listed building consent (Alt/Ext)Awaiting decision
Listed building consent
Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Listed Building Consent for internal reconfiguration and refurbishment of the fifth-floor office floorspace, new mechanical ventilation, and the refurbishment of the fifth-floor lift lobby and lavatories.

Submitted
22 October 2026
Ward
Deansgate
  1. Received22 Oct
  2. Validated22 Oct
  3. Consult.27 Nov
  4. Target
  5. Decided

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About this application

This is a heritage application at Fifth Floor Ship Canal House 96-98 King Street Manchester M2 4WU. Manchester has handled 438 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 22 October 2026 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in the Upper King Street conservation area, with 19 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 228 applications across Deansgate. We hold 512 applications in total for the M2 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
M2 4WU
Application type
Listed building consent (Alt/Ext)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 October 2026
Consultation expiry
27 November 2026
Consultation end
27 November 2026

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-15285899
Documents
22

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Upper King Street
  • Listed building: Grade II: Lombard ChambersOn or next to this site · +2 more
  • 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 (20)

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, 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.

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