Manchester City Council • 145419/LP/2026
Family home proposed as care home for one or two children
2B Alders Road Manchester M22 8FG
An application has been made to convert a family home into a small registered care home for one or two children, with staff working shifts and sleeping overnight.
- Status
- pending
- Type
- other
Summary
The applicant wants to change a family home into a small care home for one or two children. Staff would work on a rota, with one carer sleeping at the property each night. No building work is proposed — only the type of use would change. The house is in a residential street in Northenden Ward. Benchill Primary School is about a 1-minute walk from the site, with the school grounds roughly 65 metres away. Around 102 homes are within a short walk. The key planning question is whether this type of use is suitable in a residential street. The scale is small and the day-to-day feel may be similar to a family home, but regular staff changeovers could bring slightly more coming and going than a typical house.
What you can do
Anyone can comment on this application using reference 145419/LP/2026 via Manchester City Council's planning portal. The council can consider matters such as traffic, parking, and impact on the character of the area — but cannot take into account personal views about who might live there. Comments must focus on planning issues only.