Coronation Street

Actually, no they wouldn't. Under Council guidelines, the main area would require planning permission, and as this is classed as a 'business premises' and not 'residential' then each individual house on the set wouldn't require planning permission.

If ITV Manchester/ITV Studios decide to add parts to the set in future, such as extra houses, pubs, cafes, etc then these wouldn't need planning permission neither because the application has already been granted for the 'film set'.

Most film sets and television recording areas don't require planning permission if they are built within a compound, such as ITV Manchester's.

However, if they were to re-create the Street in, say, Wythenshawe, for just a weeks filming (expensive but possible) then they can do without the need for planning permission as the 'Street' would only be standing whilst they film - kinda what they did with EastEnders when they blew up the Queen Vic. A replica pub was created on a set at Pinewood and planning permission wasn't required as it was part of the compound. An external pub, and internal of the pub were both created at Pinewood (both of which are now dismantled).

Also building it out of frames and cladding (as stated) would be HD-quality because the cladding they would use would be the same as what a builder who is building a house would use. The use of frames is cheaper as well as more flexible in adverse weather conditions (such as we're having now) as it can be heat treated to melt snow and ice from the INSIDE whereas with brickwork this isn't possible.

didn't emmerdale village require planning permission and was built as a temporary structure until permission was granted

and is the village built with real brickwork, it certainly looks that way

the benefit of the new set is they can extend down Rosamund street passed the Rovers as it will all be on one level unlike the current set which is about twenty feet higher than the road behind the terrace

I wonder if they will introduce green screens on the set?

we are meant to see more of weatherfield so I guess so

I hope they do, they best not just stick that muriel up behind the Rosamund Street arch xD

Doubt it. For the special episodes I thought it was possible, but it looked like most of it was done as practical effects (exceptions being the tram and the wide establishing shots over Weatherfield).

Green screen for episodic television would be rushed to the point of being nigh on impossible.

If they've got more room on the lot then they might add bits and pieces, but I'm not expecting much.

More curious to see how much bigger the street looks once its been built to 130% scale.

I've been catching up on last Thursday's episode, and was wondering about the final scene with Clare inside what's
left of her house. How would she have got in? Wouldn't the house have been boarded up as a safety precaution?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wandering around inside a burnt out building is somewhat rather dangerous.

At least the kitchen was still virtually intact!

You aren't meant to notice such things! Why did her house catch fire anyway?

didn't you know soap characters have unpresidented access to all structually unsafe buildings, Peggy had a look round the burnt out vic, Maria and Carla discussed Ladrags inside the burnt out underworld and way way back on Brookside Ron Dixon looked around a burnt out number 8

I'm quite sure somebody in Emerdale has done the same
her house caught fire as a result of the tram hitting the shop nextdoor and causing a gas leak

well it's a good a guess as any as nobody's actually said why it caught fire, probably for the blazing hell of it to make us think of more character's who may die

is that life size then, thought 100% would be life size, they could effectively film inside the houses on the lot if they wanted to

pardon my ignorance I'm not a set builder

You don't need to be a set builder, of course, to do some quite simple maths.

You should know that the set at the moment is less than 100% of what it should be - so if it were 130% of its current size, this would bring it up to 100% of what it should be.

Yes, exactly. The 30% increase will make it "life size".