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77 - 79 George Street Altrincham WA14 1RN

112495/PIP/23Permission in PrincipleRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 15 January 2024

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Application for Permission in Principle for a residential-led development comprising material change of use of part of ground-floor and of part first-floor from lap dancing club and retail unit, to use as up to 3no. self-contained apartments. Erection of additional storey extensions above existing building to form up to 4no. self-contained apartments at second floor, including construction of pitched roof (with duplex apartment bedrooms within new attic space). Together with external alterations to fenestration and recladding of first floor frontage onto George Street re-facing of side and rear elevations facing The Causeway and alterations to window and door openings at sides and rear, creation of internal bin store to the rear; and formation of new shop front and pedestrian doorway fronting onto George Street.

Received
8 December 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Altrincham
Agent
County Planning Ltd
  1. Received8 Dec
  2. Validated11 Dec
  3. Consult.5 Jan
  4. Target15 Jan
  5. Decided15 Jan

Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 77 - 79 George Street Altrincham WA14 1RN. Trafford has handled 494 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 3 weeks quicker than Trafford's typical decision time. The site is in the George Street conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 101 applications across Altrincham. We hold 816 applications in total for the WA14 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
WA14 1RN
Application type
Permission in Principle
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 December 2023
Consultation expiry
10 January 2024
Consultation start
15 December 2023
Consultation end
5 January 2024
Neighbour consultation start
15 December 2023
Neighbour consultation end
8 January 2024
Last date for comments
10 January 2024
Target decision date
15 January 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
County Planning Ltd
Agent address
County Planning Ltd Parkhill Studio Walton Road Wetherby West Yorkshire LS22 5DZ

Planning decision

Statutory period
35 days

Publicity

Site notice start
20 December 2023
Site notice end
10 January 2024

Additional information

Documents
40
Constraints
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: George Street
  • Heritage at Risk Register: George Street, Altrincham
  • Brownfield land register: 101-105 George Street, Altrincham, WA14 1RNRegister site at or near this address · +2 more
  • 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 (19)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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: Trafford

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