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139-141 Bispham Road Southport PR9 7BL

DC/2015/00901Full ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 7 August 2015

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from a laundrette to a café including the erection of an extraction flue to the rear elevation

Received
20 May 2015
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Norwood Ward
  1. Received20 May
  2. Validated20 May
  3. Consult.12 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided7 Aug

Decided in 79 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 139-141 Bispham Road Southport PR9 7BL. Sefton has handled 1,804 applications of this type. This one was decided in 79 days, 3 weeks longer than Sefton's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 38 applications across Norwood Ward. We hold 1,053 applications in total for the PR9 postcode area.

95% of full applications at Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
PR9 7BL
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 May 2015
Consultation expiry
12 August 2015
Consultation end
12 August 2015
Neighbour consultation start
24 June 2015
Committee meeting
5 August 2015
Permission expires
7 August 2018

Applicant and agent

Agent address
137 Bispham Road Southport PR9 7BJ

Additional information

Documents
13

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.

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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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Associated applications

  1. 2021
    25 Feb

    Variation of Condition 2 pursuant to planning application DC/2015/00901

    RefusedVariation of conditions (s73)DC/2021/00544
  2. 2015
    14 Oct

    Approval of details reserved by Condition 3a attached to planning permission referenced DC/2015/00901

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsDC/2015/01664
  3. 2015
    20 May

    Change of use from a laundrette to a café including the erection of an extraction flue to the rear elevation

    This applicationApprovedFullDC/2015/00901

Source: Sefton

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