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18 Melling Lane Maghull L31 3DG

DC/2024/00297Full ApplicationRefused
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Refused on 23 April 2024

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of existing dwellinghouse (C3) to a children's day nursery (F1), with the erection of a single storey nursery building to the rear, construction of vehicular access to Melling Lane and a car park on site for staff/parents.

Received
28 February 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Sudell Ward
  1. Received28 Feb
  2. Validated28 Feb
  3. Consult.31 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided23 Apr

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 18 Melling Lane Maghull L31 3DG. Sefton has handled 1,804 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 31 applications across Sudell Ward. We hold 361 applications in total for the L31 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
L31 3DG
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Maghull Town Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 February 2024
Consultation expiry
31 March 2024
Consultation end
31 March 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Corrieness Aultvaich Beauly Inverness-shire IV4 7AN UK

Additional information

Documents
14

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
  • Tree Preservation Order: TPO135Protected tree on or next to this site
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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.

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

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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    26 Oct

    Erection of four dwellings and associated access road.

    PendingApplicationDC/2026/01821

Source: Sefton

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