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16 Dorset Street Stretford Manchester M32 0HB

115431/PMA/25Prior Approval Class MARefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 31 March 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Application to determine if prior approval is required for a proposed change of use from Commercial, Business and Service (Use Class E) to 1no. dwelling at ground floor (Use Class C3) under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) - Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA.

Received
23 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Stretford & Humphrey Park
Agent
Paul Butler Associates
  1. Received23 Jan
  2. Validated3 Feb
  3. Consult.25 Feb
  4. Target31 Mar
  5. Decided31 Mar

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 16 Dorset Street Stretford Manchester M32 0HB. Trafford has handled 494 applications of this type. This one was decided in 67 days, 11 days longer than Trafford's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 37 applications across Stretford & Humphrey Park. We hold 228 applications in total for the M32 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
M32 0HB
Application type
Prior Approval Class MA
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 February 2025
Consultation expiry
27 February 2025
Consultation start
4 February 2025
Consultation end
25 February 2025
Neighbour consultation start
4 February 2025
Neighbour consultation end
25 February 2025
Last date for comments
27 February 2025
Target decision date
31 March 2025
Permission expires
31 March 2030

Applicant and agent

Agent
Paul Butler Associates
Agent address
31 Blackfriars Road Salford M3 7AQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
6 February 2025
Site notice end
27 February 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13644884
Documents
10
Constraints
5

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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