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4 Mar 2021, 11:13
A recent Manchester City Council case shows the importance of understanding and complying with air quality guidance in planning applications.
We recently acted for the claimant in a legal challenge to the decision of Manchester City Council to grant itself planning permission for a 24-hour 440-space car park at the site of the former Central Retail Park adjoining Great Ancoats Street.
The retail park was demolished in 2018/2019. The site lies adjacent to the New Islington Free School and is within an Air Quality Management Area.
The Council granted permission on the basis that the air quality and traffic impacts were “neutral” because they would be comparable to the effects of the previous retail park. The Officer Report and the Traffic and Air Quality Reports on which it relied wrongly stated the site still had “extant” permission for the retail park. ....

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