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Palmer House 11 Virgil Street Old Trafford Manchester M15 4ED

117063/VAR/25Variation of conditionApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 12 November 2025

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Application under Section 73 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended) for variation of condition 3, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 19 and 20 on planning permission 113278/FUL/24 (Erection of four houses with ground floor parking and associated amenity space along with the change of use of Palmer House to Class E(g) with associated external alterations and the construction of a new car park and amenity space). To vary the wording on Condition Numbers 3 (materials), 7 (hard and soft landscaping), 10 (boundary treatments), 11 (construction method statement), 12 (car parking), 13 (cycle storage), 19 (bin stores), 20 (drainage strategy) to separate the condition requirements for the new housing and change of use of Palmer House.

Received
13 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Gorse Hill & Cornbrook
Agent
Focus Town Planning Limited
  1. Received13 Aug
  2. Validated20 Aug
  3. Consult.11 Sep
  4. Target15 Oct
  5. Decided12 Nov

Decided in 84 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Palmer House 11 Virgil Street Old Trafford Manchester M15 4ED. Trafford has handled 630 applications of this type. This one was decided in 91 days, 5 weeks longer than Trafford's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 85 applications across Gorse Hill & Cornbrook. We hold 150 applications in total for the M15 postcode area.

93% of conditions 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
M15 4ED
Application type
Variation of condition
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 August 2025
Consultation expiry
22 September 2025
Consultation start
21 August 2025
Consultation end
11 September 2025
Neighbour consultation start
21 August 2025
Neighbour consultation end
11 September 2025
Last date for comments
22 September 2025
Target decision date
15 October 2025
Permission expires
12 November 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
Focus Town Planning Limited
Agent address
Egerton House Towers Business Park Didsbury Manchester M20 2DX

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
28 August 2025
Advertisement expiry
18 September 2025
Site notice start
1 September 2025
Site notice end
22 September 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14180210
Documents
8
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.

  • 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.

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