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489 - 491 Chester Road Old Trafford Manchester M16 9HF

116839/PMA/25Prior Approval Class MAApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 11 September 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval ApprovedDelegated (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 7 no. dwellings (Use Class C3) with associated car parking, bin storage and cycle storage under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) - Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA.

Received
15 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Gorse Hill & Cornbrook
Agent
Paul Butler Associates
  1. Received15 Jul
  2. Validated17 Jul
  3. Consult.8 Aug
  4. Target11 Sep
  5. Decided11 Sep

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 489 - 491 Chester Road Old Trafford Manchester M16 9HF. Trafford has handled 494 applications of this type. This one was decided in 58 days. The site is in the Empress conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

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
M16 9HF
Application type
Prior Approval Class MA
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 July 2025
Consultation expiry
15 August 2025
Consultation start
18 July 2025
Consultation end
8 August 2025
Neighbour consultation start
18 July 2025
Neighbour consultation end
8 August 2025
Last date for comments
15 August 2025
Target decision date
11 September 2025
Permission expires
11 September 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
25 July 2025
Site notice end
15 August 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13518570
Documents
13
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.

Source: Trafford

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