Planning application
Schuster Building Brunswick Street Manchester M13 9SR
Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.
Proposal
Proposed installation of two Combined Heat and Power units (CHP) within the Schuster and Williamson Building basement plantrooms to provide energy across a below ground network to University buildings within the East Campus, including associated below ground pipework, external exhaust flues and ventilation equipment to support the CHP engines.
As published by the council, reference 122888/FO/2019
Application record
- Reference
- 122888/FO/2019
- Type
- Full Application Consent
- Status
- Decided
- Decision
- Approved
- Received
- 22 Mar 2019
- Validated
- 22 Mar 2019
- Decided
- 10 Jun 2019
- Ward
- Hulme Ward
- Decision by
- Delegated Decision
- Postcode
- M13 9SR
Site history
Applications at this address on the Manchester register
This site has had 2 applications since 2018: 2 approved, 0 refused.
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CDN/17/0672 Granted
Schuster Building Brunswick Street Manchester M13 9SR
Application to discharge conditions 10 (landscaping), 13 (suds), 16 (event management strategy), 17 ( signage strategy), 23 (public realm landscaping maintenence strategy) and 28 (refuse) attached to planning permission reference 110986/FO/2016/C1
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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22 Mar 2019
Received by Manchester
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10 Jun 2019
Decision issued: Approved
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13 Aug 2026
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Agent on file, an architecture practice registered in Oxford
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