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479 Chester Road Old Trafford Manchester M16 9HF

112872/FUL/24Full ApplicationRefused
Full

Refused on 7 May 2024

Council decision: RefusalDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Retention of windows to front elevation.

Received
12 February 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Gorse Hill & Cornbrook
  1. Received12 Feb
  2. Validated13 Mar
  3. Consult.4 Apr
  4. Target8 May
  5. Decided7 May

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for window replacement at 479 Chester Road Old Trafford Manchester M16 9HF. Trafford has handled 2,373 applications of this type. This one was decided in 85 days, 4 weeks longer than Trafford's typical decision time. The site is in the Empress conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 85 applications across Gorse Hill & Cornbrook. We hold 1,319 applications in total for the M16 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
M16 9HF
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 March 2024
Consultation expiry
18 April 2024
Consultation start
14 March 2024
Consultation end
4 April 2024
Neighbour consultation start
14 March 2024
Neighbour consultation end
6 April 2024
Last date for comments
18 April 2024
Target decision date
8 May 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
21 March 2024
Advertisement expiry
11 April 2024
Site notice start
28 March 2024
Site notice end
18 April 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12800792
Comments
0
Documents
11
Constraints
9

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: Empress
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Empress, Old Trafford
  • 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 (20)

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, 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. 2024
    12 Feb

    Retention of windows to front elevation.

    This applicationRefusedFull112872/FUL/24
  2. 2024
    12 Feb

    Advertisement consent sought for the retention of two fascias to the front elevation.

    RefusedAdvertisement consentFiled alongside112873/ADV/24

Source: Trafford

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