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Planning applications: October 31, 2011

A round up from the city's planning portal to keep you in the know

Written by . Published on October 31st 2011.


Planning applications: October 31, 2011

36 New Mount Street, Manchester; Change of use from Public House to Office accommodation and associated consulting rooms, ancillary facilities with associated external alterations, provision of ramped access, demolition of single storey lean to extensions together with provision of disabled car parking space; Ms Linda Wilson; 097396/FO/2011/N1

Railway Viaduct At Castlefield Junction, Manchester;  BUILDING CONSENT Erection of gantries to railway viaduct capable of supporting overhead electrical cabling, in connection with the electrification of the Liverpool-Manchester railway line; Network Rail; 097251/LO/2011/C1

2 North Western Street, Levenshulme Manchester; Change of use of building to Juice Bar (Class A3); Aziz Shah

39 Tib Street, Manchester; Extension of time limit on planning permission ref 083381/FO/2007/C1 for the erection of a mixed use development comprising 1 A1 retail unit at ground floor and 3 residential units above; Syed Ahmad; 096824/REP/2011/C2

Hatters Hostel, 50 Newton Street, The Northern Quarter, Manchester; LISTED BUILDING CONSENT for internal and external works associated with change of use to licenced cafe bar with ancillary performance space including removal of the existing, non-period entrance on Hilton Street and its replacement with a glazed shopfront, the incorporation of a concertina style metal sliding shutter to the new entrance, minor alterations to the internal layout comprising the removal of the non-period, non-structural partition walls and coverings reconfiguration of the basement layout; cleaning of the existing period features, refurbishment of the existing external atrium space to include external smoking area and sheltered film screening room and the installation of new external doors to this external terrace; Karl Kinsella; 095005/LO/2010/C2

Gateway House, Station Approach, Ducie Street, Manchester; The refurbishment of Gateway House to create a 270 bedroom hotel with restaurant, bar and meeting rooms above a ground floor retail space for use for Shop use or Financial and Professional Services Use or Class Restaurant and Cafe Use or Drinking Establishment Use or Hot Food Take Away Use, erection of new 7-storey office connected to Gateway House by bridge link, erection of new 3-storey gym and demolition of existing single storey building on Ducie Street; Hodder + Partners

123 - 125 Liverpool Road Manchester; Change of use, alterations and refurbishment together with erection of five-storey extension following demolition of existing non-original extension to create a 39 bed boutique hotel (Class C1) and ground floor restaurant (Class A3) and ancillary bar (A4) at 123 - 125 Liverpool Road

The Printworks, Withy Grove/Corporation Street/Dantzic Street Manchester; Erection of 10 x advertisement banners, 2 two digital screens (one on Withy Grove and one on Dantzic Street) and signage strategy for the location and scale of the tenant signage at ground floor and upper levels of the building.

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AnonymousNovember 2nd 2011.

surprised you've decided not to publicise one of the most shocking and inappropriate planning applications in recent times, namely TGI Friday's application to deface the frontage of one of our most important historic buildings, the Royal Exchange.

The planning portal seems to be down so cant find the application number. Gah!

2 Responses: Reply To This...
AnonymousNovember 2nd 2011.

ts 097216/FO/2011/C1 -really not that shocking or inappropriate as they seem to have amended their plans. Also did you know the Royal Exchange was actually rebuilt in 1923 and then again after WWII bombing?

AnonymousNovember 3rd 2011.

The building was in fact rebuilt and enlarged a number of times to accommodate increasing membership on the back of booming trade.

The WWII bomb effectively destroyed half of the interior of the final, extended building. The RE theatre would eventually be inserted into the remaining half the original trading floor; the bomb-damaged half was never reinstated due to declining trade and that part was eventually rebuilt in the 50s as a mixed-use office and retail scheme within the skin of the existing building.

You can only really tell it is now two buildings from an aerial picture. The 3 remaining and restored domes in the following picture would have been mirrored on rebuilt portion that faces M&S.

www.webbaviation.co.uk/…/royal-exchange-mg9322.jpg…

As this horrible restaurant is being built in the rebuilt portion, there is little interior heritage that TGIs could actually ruin but the facade remains as it was in its pre-war hey day, and it is this that the application undermines.

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Simon BinnsNovember 2nd 2011.

We did more than that Anon - we wrote a whole story about it here: www.manchesterconfidential.co.uk/…/TGI-Fridays-Plans-City-Centre-Restaurant…

tblzebraNovember 2nd 2011.

Hope the Liverpool Road scheme (the worlds first railway hotel) is a success. It's up for sale already, for £2.3m:
http://search.knightfrank.com/hty070025

Here's hoping they keep the name Commercial...
www.manchesterconfidential.co.uk/…/Boutique-Hotel-for-Liverpool-Road…

AnonymousNovember 3rd 2011.

Fair comment Simon but for those that do not have the time to download the planning application I feel it is worth pointing out just how shocking the plans for the externals are.

Here is a link to a mock-up of the new shopfront and canopy

www.publicaccess.manchester.gov.uk/…/eddoc.aspx…

The Man Con article reproduces the line spun by the applicants that the proposals are sensitive to the character of the building but amusingly, the heritage assessment submitted by the applicants completely neglects to mention the rather large and frankly hideous Vegas-style canopy that they want to clamp to the front of the building - all perspex, metal and flashing fairy lights.

This is not in any way shape or form an appropriate addition to the building and is clearly not as claimed in the planning statement "subservient [in] form and scale" to the Royal Exchange theatre's signage. The same document also claims the cladding to the canopy will be composed of glass in fill panels (they will in fact be plastic, confirmed by the elevation drawings).

The Royal Exchange is one of Manchester's most important buildings. Quite simply the building should not be defaced in this way.

The plans have not been amended, the latest documents uploaded onto the planning portal are dated 10th October. This application should be rejected.

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