Town Planner Pro
Free trial
Search appeal decisions

Planning appeal decision

Dismissed16 April 20253337185

Sahara Lounge, 181-3 Wilmslow Road, Rusholme, Manchester , City of Manchester, M14 5AP

Planning appeal 3337185 at Sahara Lounge, 181-3 Wilmslow Road, Rusholme, Manchester , City of Manchester, M14 5AP (Manchester City Council) was dismissed on 16 April 2025 by Inspector Jones D, by written representations. The main issue, as the Inspector framed it: Whether the material change of use to a shisha smoking place constitutes a breach of planning control.

the change of use from a café (Class E) to a café/shisha establishment (Sui Generis)

Authority
Manchester City Council
Appeal type
minor · Planning Appeal
Procedure
Written Representations
Development
leisure-sport · Change of use
Inspector
Jones D

Main issues, as the Inspector framed them

  • Whether the material change of use to a shisha smoking place constitutes a breach of planning control
  • The effect of the development on the living conditions of neighbouring residents, with particular regard to noise, disturbance, and odour

What decided it

The shisha smoking use would generate unacceptable levels of noise and odour affecting neighbouring residential properties, particularly through the necessity of keeping sliding doors open, conflicting with development plan policies protecting residential amenity.

What the Inspector cited

Development plan policies
Policy SP1Policy DM1Policy DC26
National Planning Policy Framework
Paragraph 232Paragraph 135Paragraph 11

How the Inspector dealt with each one is set out in the app, in order: the development plan, national policy, housing land supply, other considerations and the planning balance, beside the letter.

See how each was applied

The decision letter

Town Planner Pro holds this letter. The Appeals plan opens it and every other letter we hold, all of them searchable, with the main issues and what decided each case picked out. We do not show letters on the free site because they carry people’s names and addresses.

Appeals plan, £15 a month

With an account

What an account adds to this decision

179 other decided appeals within two kilometres of this site. In the app every dot opens its decision, and its letter wherever one was published, and you can draw your own site to see what has been decided around it.AllowedDismissedSplitThis decision
An appeal decision in the app, with the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out beside the letter
Every letter, there to read. We pick out the main issues, the policies and the judgments cited, so you can work through the letter faster.
Searching the full text of appeal decision letters in the app
Search inside every letter. By words or by meaning, filtered by authority, outcome, appeal type and procedure, with every locatable decision on the map and the Inspector named on each.
Start your free trial

More decisions in Manchester City Council

The authority’s record since 2016 · every decision in 2025

  1. Allowed8 October 20266011214
    Basement To First Floor,, 58 - 60 Portland Street,, Manchester,, M1 4QT
  2. Dismissed1 October 20266008018
    65 Grimshaw Lane, Manchester, M40 2AX
  3. Dismissed9 September 20266011458
    2B Minehead Avenue, Manchester, M20 1FW
  4. Dismissed27 August 20266008362
    16 Dalton Avenue, Manchester, M14 7NR
  5. Dismissed13 August 20266008786
    348 Droylsden Road, Manchester, M40 1GF

The main issues, what decided it, the planning balance and the policies and judgments listed as cited are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro and are our summary, not the Inspector’s words; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.

In the app this decision sits on the map beside every appeal around it, with its letter to read and the main issues, policies and judgments cited picked out.