Planning application
Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway Viaduct.
Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.
Proposal
Listed building consent for works to remove existing brickwork/railing parapets at London Road, Sackville Street and Whitworth Street West and installation of 1.4m high acoustic parapets for noise mitigation as part of continuing use as operational railway.
As published by the council, reference 109899/LO/2015/C2
Application record
- Reference
- 109899/LO/2015/C2
- Type
- Listed Building Consent
- Received
- 4 Sep 2015
- Validated
- 4 Sep 2015
- Ward
- Deansgate Ward
Site history
Applications at this address on the Manchester register
This site has had 3 applications since 2015: 2 approved, 0 refused.
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108762/LO/2015/C1 Granted
Manchester South Junction And Altrincham Railway Viaduct
Listed Building Consent for the Installation Of Signal Gantry Structure to Arch COL94A (Castle Street) and Structural Investigation Works at Various Locations
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108109/LO/2015/C1 Granted
Manchester South Junction And Altrincham Railway Viaduct
Installation of additional OLE portal structure, additional steel bracing and access platform to arch COL 100 (amendment to previous approval 106616/LO/2014/C1)
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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4 Sep 2015
Received by Manchester
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8 Oct 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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Decision
Awaiting decision
Decision expected by 30 October 2015, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.
Manchester took a median of 55 days over the applications it decided in the last year.
Who's behind it
Company information only, from the register and Companies House
Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd Agent, registered in London
Active · incorporated 1994 · London
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Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
13 documents on file for this application
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