15 Hanging Birches Widnes Cheshire WA8 5BJ
Approved on 13 November 2025
Delegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Application for a Certificate of Proposed Lawful Development for a garage conversion to create habitable room at
- Received
- 10 October 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Council
- Halton Borough Council
- Ward
- Birchfield
- Agent
- Home Architectural Ltd
- ReceivedReceived10 Oct
- ValidatedValidated10 Oct
- Consult.Consultation9 Nov
- TargetTarget Date5 Dec
- DecidedDecided13 Nov
Decided in 34 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an outline application for a garage at 15 Hanging Birches Widnes Cheshire WA8 5BJ. Halton has handled 76 applications of this type. This one was decided in 34 days, 2 weeks quicker than Halton's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 13 applications across Birchfield. We hold 214 applications in total for the WA8 postcode area.
91% of outline applications at Halton Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- WA8 5BJ
- Application type
- Lawful Development Cert - Proposed
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- No Parish
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 10 October 2025
- Last date for comments
- 9 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 5 December 2025
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent
- Home Architectural Ltd
- Architect profile
- HOME ARCHITECTURAL LTD
- Agent address
- Home Architectural Ltd 12 Glebe Lane Widnes WA8 9JD
Planning decision
- Case officer
- William Wood
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14363018
- Documents
- 5
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.
A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.
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