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Unit 21 Guinness Road Trading Estate Guinness Road Trafford Park Manchester M17 1SB

106601/PRJ/21Prior Approval Class JApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 4 February 2022

Council decision: Prior Approval ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Application for the installation of a 28.8 kWp roof-mounted solar PV array (64 panels) for determination as to whether prior approval is required under Schedule 2 Part 14 Class J of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015.

Received
6 December 2021
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Gorse Hill
  1. Received6 Dec
  2. Validated6 Dec
  3. Consult.11 Jan
  4. Target31 Jan
  5. Decided4 Feb

Decided in 60 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a solar installation at Unit 21 Guinness Road Trading Estate Guinness Road Trafford Park Manchester M17 1SB. Trafford has handled 494 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 4 days longer than Trafford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 95 applications in total for the M17 postcode area.

81% of outline applications at Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
M17 1SB
Application type
Prior Approval Class J
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 December 2021
Consultation expiry
3 February 2022
Consultation start
21 December 2021
Consultation end
11 January 2022
Neighbour consultation start
21 December 2021
Neighbour consultation end
18 January 2022
Last date for comments
3 February 2022
Target decision date
31 January 2022
Permission expires
4 February 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
JLL
Agent address
Landmark 1 Oxford Street Manchester M1 4PB

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
13 January 2022
Site notice end
3 February 2022

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-10451498
Documents
8
Constraints
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 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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

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.

© 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: Trafford

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