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Manchester And Ashton Under Lyne Canal Lock Number 18 (Fairfield Top Lock) Off Fairbottom Walk Fairfield M43 6DU

26/00678/LBCAwaiting decision
Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Repair, necessary replacement and upgrade works including replacement of top and bottom gates and their cills and pots, vegetation removal and re-pointing (NHL5) of lock chamber walls, extension of lock ladder and its recess, bottom end towpath side quadrant wall repair and replacement of sub-par paddle fixings, paddle plates and ladder fixings.

Received
24 August 2026
Public comments
0 · last counted 7 November 2026
Ward
Sutton
  1. Received24 Aug
  2. Validated16 Oct
  3. Consult.12 Nov
  4. Target
  5. Decided

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About this application

This is a planning application for an extension at Manchester And Ashton Under Lyne Canal Lock Number 18 (Fairfield Top Lock) Off Fairbottom Walk Fairfield M43 6DU. Tameside has handled 5,470 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 16 October 2026 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in the Fairfield conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 1 application across Sutton. We hold 861 applications in total for the M43 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
M43 6DU

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 October 2026
Consultation end
12 November 2026

Planning decision

Case officer
James Matchett

Additional information

Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: conservation areas and tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (19)

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 and heritage coasts.

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: Tameside

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