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5 St Edmunds Row, Bridgewater Street, LITTLE HULTON, WORSLEY, MANCHESTER, M38 9ND

PA/2025/1185Change of useRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 6 February 2026

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)1 reason for refusal

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

Proposal

Conversion of a dwelling (use class C3) to a 3 bedroom, 3 person House in Multiple Occupation (HMO) (use class C4)

Submitted
21 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Walkden North Ward
  1. Received21 Oct
  2. Validated21 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target11 Nov
  5. Decided6 Feb

Decided in 108 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 5 St Edmunds Row, Bridgewater Street, LITTLE HULTON, WORSLEY, MANCHESTER, M38 9ND. Salford has handled 437 applications of this type. This one was decided in 108 days, 7 weeks longer than Salford's typical decision time. The site is in the Saxby All Saints conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Walkden North Ward. We hold 152 applications in total for the M38 postcode area.

80% of amendment applications at Salford City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Why it was refused

  1. The proposal would result in cumulative unacceptable harm to the positive residential character of the surrounding neighbourhood due to the close grouping together of Houses in Multiple Occupation. This will be particularly experienced by the occupiers of No.3 St Edmund's Row (Bridgewater Street) which would be immediately adjacent to more than one property in use as a House in Multiple Occupation. The proposal would result in an unacceptable impact on the amenity of the occupiers of this neighbouring property and would contribute to issues related to high population turnover levels that risks reducing community stability and social cohesion. As such, the proposal is contrary to Policies H1, F3, D5 and H10 of the Salford Local Plan: Development Management Policies and Designations. Article 35 Declaration The proposal would not improve the economic, social and environmental conditions of the area nor does it comply with the development plan and therefore does not comprise sustainable development. There were no amendments to the scheme, or conditions which could reasonably have been imposed, which could have made the development acceptable and it was therefore not possible to approve the application.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
M38 9ND
Application type
Change of use
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 October 2025
Target decision date
11 November 2025
Application expires
6 February 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
108 days

Additional information

Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Article 4 direction: 2024 HMO Article 4 Direction
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, tree preservation orders, 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: Salford

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