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62 Seymour Grove Old Trafford Manchester M16 0LN

91846/PRO/17Prior Approval Class OApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 27 September 2017

Council decision: Prior Approval ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of existing office building from office (Use Class B1(a) ) to residential (Use Class C3) to create 2 no. apartments. Application for determination as to whether prior approval is required under Class O, Part 3 of Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended).

Received
4 July 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Longford
  1. Received4 Jul
  2. Validated3 Aug
  3. Consult.29 Aug
  4. Target28 Sep
  5. Decided27 Sep

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 62 Seymour Grove Old Trafford Manchester M16 0LN. Trafford has handled 494 applications of this type. This one was decided in 85 days, 4 weeks longer than Trafford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 59 applications across Longford. We hold 1,317 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 0LN
Application type
Prior Approval Class O
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 August 2017
Consultation expiry
29 August 2017
Consultation start
8 August 2017
Consultation end
29 August 2017
Neighbour consultation start
8 August 2017
Neighbour consultation end
29 August 2017
Last date for comments
29 August 2017
Target decision date
28 September 2017
Permission expires
27 September 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent
William McCall
Architect profile
WILLIAM MCCALL ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES LIMITED
Agent address
14 Primrose Bank Greenfield Saddleworth Oldham OL3 7JP

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Documents
4
Constraints
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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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