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Trafford Road Swing Bridge Control Tower, Trafford Road, Salford, M17 1AG

PA/2025/1403Full planning permissionApproved
Full

Approved on 20 March 2026

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)6 conditions

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

Proposal

Change of use of existing building, to a mixed-use building to include a ground floor café, first floor kitchen and second floor office accommodation together with alterations to elevations

Submitted
29 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Quays Ward
  1. Received29 Sep
  2. Validated29 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target8 Dec
  5. Decided20 Mar

Decided in 172 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Trafford Road Swing Bridge Control Tower, Trafford Road, Salford, M17 1AG. Salford has handled 2,261 applications of this type. This one was decided in 172 days, 17 weeks longer than Salford's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 27 applications across Quays Ward. We hold 96 applications in total for the M17 postcode area.

88% of full applications at Salford City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
M17 1AG
Application type
Full planning permission
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
29 September 2025
Target decision date
8 December 2025
Application expires
20 March 2026

Planning decision

Statutory period
172 days

Appeal history

3254595
Dismissed
Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 8 January 2021Dev Type: Change of useReason: Refusal

Additional information

Documents
33

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)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2025
    29 Sep

    Change of use of existing building, to a mixed-use building to include a ground floor café, first floor…

    This applicationApprovedFullPA/2025/1403
  2. 2025
    29 Sep

    Listed Building Consent for the change of use of existing building, to a mixed-use building to include a…

    ApprovedListed building consentFiled alongsidePA/2025/1543

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