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84 - 90 Higher Road Urmston Manchester M41 9AP

110631/FUL/23Full ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 10 May 2024

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Change of use of existing buildings (Use Class B2) to offices (Use Class E) along with installation of front boundary fence, amendments to external elevations, installation of AC units and heat pumps and replacement of warehouse roof (Part Retrospective).

Received
30 March 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
9
Ward
Urmston
Agent
Acer Town Planning
  1. Received30 Mar
  2. Validated20 Jun
  3. Consult.20 Jul
  4. Target15 Aug
  5. Decided10 May

Decided in 325 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 84 - 90 Higher Road Urmston Manchester M41 9AP. Trafford has handled 2,373 applications of this type. This one was decided in 407 days, 50 weeks longer than Trafford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 55 applications across Urmston. We hold 1,024 applications in total for the M41 postcode area.

84% of full 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
M41 9AP
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 June 2023
Consultation expiry
29 February 2024
Consultation start
29 June 2023
Consultation end
20 July 2023
Neighbour consultation start
8 February 2024
Neighbour consultation end
29 February 2024
Last date for comments
29 February 2024
Target decision date
15 August 2023
Permission expires
10 May 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
Acer Town Planning
Agent address
1 Spennithorne Road Urmston M41 5BU

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12053644
Documents
35
Constraints
6

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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