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Sandhills Railway Station Sandhills Lane, Liverpool, L5 9XN

24F/2773Full Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved

Council decision: Approved with Conditions

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

Proposal

Construction of a new ramp, staircase, footbridge and associated landing arrangement from crowd management zone (refer to planning application 24F/1938) to southern end of island platform. To propose an emergency egress staircase and footpath to Dunes Way, connected to new staircase and footbridge, along with a new Merseyrail secure compound arrangement for stage containers and associated on-site infrastructure with new fencing and pedestrian and vehicular access gates.

Received
11 October 2024
Ward
Kirkdale West
  1. Received11 Oct
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided

About this application

This is a full planning application at Sandhills Railway Station Sandhills Lane, Liverpool, L5 9XN. Liverpool has handled 2,123 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 11 October 2024 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 16 applications across Kirkdale West. We hold 79 applications in total for the L5 postcode area.

82% of full 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 9XN
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Parish
City North

Planning application dates

Validated
11 October 2024

Planning decision

Decision
Approved with Conditions

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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.

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