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Ground Floor Unit 26 Seymour Grove Old Trafford Manchester M16 0LH

95983/PRC/18Prior Approval Class CApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 21 March 2019

Council decision: Prior Approval ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of property from Shop (Use Class A1) to Cafe/Restaurant (Use Class A3). Application for determination as to whether prior approval is required under Class C, Part 3 of Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order 2015 (as amended).

Received
26 October 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Longford
  1. Received26 Oct
  2. Validated12 Nov
  3. Consult.5 Dec
  4. Target7 Jan
  5. Decided21 Mar

Decided in 129 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Ground Floor Unit 26 Seymour Grove Old Trafford Manchester M16 0LH. Trafford has handled 494 applications of this type. This one was decided in 146 days, 13 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 1,318 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 0LH
Application type
Prior Approval Class C
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 November 2018
Consultation expiry
25 January 2019
Consultation start
14 November 2018
Consultation end
5 December 2018
Neighbour consultation start
14 November 2018
Neighbour consultation end
5 December 2018
Last date for comments
25 January 2019
Target decision date
7 January 2019
Permission expires
21 March 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
4 January 2019
Site notice end
25 January 2019

Additional information

Documents
5
Constraints
10

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

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© 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.

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Source: Trafford

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