Power Station 132 Manchester Road Carrington Manchester M31 4AY

119447/FUL/26Approved

Approved on 3 September 2026

Council decision: Approve with Conditions3 conditions

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

Proposal

Installation of a purpose-built Protection and Control Room building with associated equipment and minor works.

Received: 24 June 2026
Council: Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council

ReceivedReceived24 Jun
ValidatedValidated3 Aug
Consult.Consultation25 Aug
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided3 Sep

Decided in 31 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Power Station 132 Manchester Road Carrington Manchester M31 4AY. Trafford has handled 5,218 applications of this type. This one was decided in 31 days, 4 weeks quicker than Trafford's typical decision time. There have been 9 other applications at this address. We hold 80 applications in total for the M31 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode: M31 4AY

Planning application dates

Date validated: 3 August 2026
Consultation end: 25 August 2026

Additional information

Documents: 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.

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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9 other applications at this property, newest first.

Source: Trafford

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