1 Leece Street, Liverpool, L1 2TR

23PO/0704Prior Approval Office to ResidentialRefused

Outline / PiP

Refused on 15 May 2023

Council decision: Prior Approval RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Application for prior approval to change use upper floors of commercial business (use class E) to form 2no. Class C3 residential apartments

Received: 22 March 2023
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Liverpool City Council
Ward: Central Ward

ReceivedReceived22 Mar
ValidatedValidated22 Mar
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided15 May

Decided in 54 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at 1 Leece Street, Liverpool, L1 2TR. Liverpool has handled 1,040 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days. The site is in a conservation area, with 7 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. We hold 276 applications in total for the L1 postcode area.

71% of outline 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: L1 2TR
Application type: Prior Approval Office to Residential
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Central Ward

Planning application dates

Date validated: 22 March 2023
Application expires: 16 May 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period: 55 days

Additional information

Documents: 6

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

Article 4 direction: The Liverpool (Anfield, Central, Greenbank, Kensington and Fairfield, Picton, Princess Pa…
Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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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© 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.

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Source: Liverpool

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