Pavilion House Wythenshawe Sports Ground Willenhall Road Manchester M23 0BD Data via plota.co.uk

144600/VO/2025 - Full planning permission Approved

Proposal

City Council Development - Refurbishment of existing sports pavilion (Class F2) involving a partial change of use to provide: a weightlifting gym (Class E), ancillary cafe and community room, external alterations, CCTV and lighting, reconfiguration to the existing hard landscaping to enable a widened pedestrian footpath, installation of external plant and enclosure and other associated works. Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

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Received
21 Nov 2025
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Validated
24 Nov 2025
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Approved
16 Jan 2026

Approved on 16 Jan 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 8 Oct 2026

Associated applications 3

Site constraints 6

Green belt: Merseyside and Greater Manchester
Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.
Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.
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Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Local nature reserve about 345 m away: Kenworthy Woods; Nature recovery project: Lost Wetlands; Inside the Wythenshawe built-up area; Air quality management area about 13 m away: Manchester AQMA.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 8 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Manchester
Application type
Full planning permission
Postcode
M23 0BD
Received
21 Nov 2025
Validated
24 Nov 2025
Ward
Northenden
Case officer
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Target decision
19 Jan 2026
Decision
Approve
Decision date
16 Jan 2026
Decision level
Delegated Decision
Applicant
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Agent
Lynsay Ewart

How this decision compares

Decided in 53 days from validation, about the council's usual 56 days. Approved, as 82% of full applications here are.

59%decided within 8 weeks
82%approved
632decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Manchester in the last twelve months, from validation. Manchester decision record →

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 8 Oct 2026

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Manchester
Planning Authority Score
6.8/10
Good
#68 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Change of use

Manchester ranks #146 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (95%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Manchester decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
87%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #174 of 296
95%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #84 of 296
65%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #146 of 296
31%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #59 of 296
76%
Minor dwellings approved
82 decided (1-9 homes)
94%
Major dwellings approved
54 decided (10+ homes)
65%
Change of use approved
49 decided
1,924
Total decisions
242 refused in the year to March 2026