Planning application
Faraday Tower The University Of Manchester Sackville Street Manchester
Works: Demolition
Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.
Proposal
Discharge of condition 4 (Demolition Management Plan) attached to planning permission 143769/FO/2025
As published by the council, reference OTH-2026-000935
Application record
- Reference
- OTH-2026-000935
- Type
- Approval of details reserved by a condition
- Status
- Under Consideration
- Received
- 7 Jul 2026
- Validated
- 7 Jul 2026
- Ward
- Piccadilly
- Decision by
- Delegated Decision
Site history
Applications at this address on the Manchester register
This site has had 2 applications since 2025: 1 approved, 0 refused.
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143769/FO/2025 Granted
Faraday Tower The University Of Manchester Sackville Street Manchester
Demolition of Faraday Tower to ground floor slab level and works to remediate/make safe the retained structure (including the erection of a perimeter hoarding) to prepare site for future development.
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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7 Jul 2026
Received by Manchester
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20 Jul 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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13 Aug 2026
Status changed to Under Consideration
Previously Under Consultation.
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Decision
Awaiting decision
Decision expected by 1 September 2026, 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.
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
3 documents on file for this application
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Open the documentsWhat happens while it is decided
This application is with Manchester for determination, against a statutory target of eight weeks. Over the last year Manchester decided condition discharge and variation applications in a median of 55 days. More in our guide to how long planning decisions take.
About condition discharge and variation applications
This application deals with conditions on an existing permission, supplying the details a condition requires or asking to vary or remove one, without reopening the permission itself. More in our guide to planning application types.
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