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7 Regency Park Widnes Cheshire WA8 9PH

26/00015/PLDLawful Development Cert - ProposedWithdrawn
Outline / PiP

Withdrawn on 24 February 2026

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for a Certificate of Proposed Lawful Development for a change of use from residential dwellinghouse (Use Class C3) to an Ofsted-registered Residential Children's Home (Use Class C2) providing accommodation for maximum of three Looked After Children aged between 8 -17 at

Received
13 January 2026
Public comments
40
Ward
Birchfield
  1. Received13 Jan
  2. Validated13 Jan
  3. Consult.5 Feb
  4. Target10 Mar
  5. Decided24 Feb

Decided in 42 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 7 Regency Park Widnes Cheshire WA8 9PH. Halton has handled 76 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 42 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. There has been 1 other application 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 9PH
Application type
Lawful Development Cert - Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
No Parish

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 January 2026
Consultation expiry
5 February 2026
Consultation start
15 January 2026
Consultation end
5 February 2026
Last date for comments
8 February 2026
Target decision date
10 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
William Wood
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14618846
Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Halton

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