Chorlton Conservative Club from a political statement to a 21st century set of flats, ....... the planning application

Now it is sometime since I have written about the Chorlton Conservative Club.  

http://chorltonhistory.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Chorlton%20Conservative%20Club

It opened in 1892 with a blaze of confidence and a profound belief that Chorlton was a place that the Conservatives would always do well in which is pretty much how the late 19th and early 20th centuries proved to be.

So while they alternated in power locally with the Liberals in the years after the Great War, Chorlton was theirs from the early 1930s till the late 1980s.

But political fortunes can wain and so it was with both the Liberals in the interwar years and the Conservatives after 1985, which in the case of the Con Club led to its sale earlier this year and a lot of speculation since on the future of the building which I can now confirm will be a conversion into thirteen flats if the planning application is accepted by the Corporation.

The plans make fascinating reading.  Amongst the documents is a detailed Heritage Assessment report which not only covers the history of the building and some fine photographs but also the plans for the conversion which on the way provides an insight into the existing building.

These can also be viewed on line at the above address of if you want go to http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/custom_scripts/public_access.php and quote the reference 101230/FO/2012/S1

So for anyone interested in what is a significant historical building in the township or like me never entered the building when it was the Con Club I would recommend looking up the planning application.

Pictures; from the  collection of Andrew Simpson