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2-6 Lightbody Street, Liverpool, L5 9UZ

23NM/0446Non-Material AmendmentApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 21 July 2023

Council decision: Non-Material Amendment - Approved

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Application for non-material amendment to 20F/1947 (To demolish vacant buildings and erect three 6.5 storey blocks with two interlinked 5 storey blocks comprising 195 residential units including 70 no.1 bedroom apartments, 93 no.2 bedroom apartments and 22 no.3 bedroom apartments, with 10 townhouses facing onto the canal, with podium deck courtyards. Ground floor includes undercroft parking, two commercial units (Use Class E and B8), 2 no. dedicated 500kva substations, associated landscaping/new public realm, and the conversion of the railway arches for commercial purposes (Use Class E and B8) so as to remove a small number of the projecting balconies along Block A of the Lightbody Street facing elevation.

Received
22 February 2023
Ward
Kirkdale Ward
  1. Received22 Feb
  2. Validated27 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided21 Jul

Decided in 144 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 2-6 Lightbody Street, Liverpool, L5 9UZ. Liverpool has handled 123 applications of this type. This one was decided in 149 days, 13 weeks longer than Liverpool's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area, with 4 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 79 applications in total for the L5 postcode area.

81% of amendment applications at Liverpool City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
L5 9UZ
Application type
Non-Material Amendment
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
195
Parish
Kirkdale Ward

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 February 2023
Application expires
27 March 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
28 days

Additional information

Documents
15

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

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© 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.

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