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Ground Floor Flat 72A Manchester Road Southport PR9 9BA

DC/2024/00390Certificate of lawfulness (existing use)Withdrawn
Lawful development certificate

Withdrawn on 6 June 2024

Council decision: Application WithdrawnDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for the continuation of use of the ground floor as 2 No. flats

Received
1 March 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Dukes Ward
Agent
Rod Ainsworth Architect
  1. Received1 Mar
  2. Validated1 Mar
  3. Consult.30 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided6 Jun

Decided in 97 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Ground Floor Flat 72A Manchester Road Southport PR9 9BA. Sefton has handled 135 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 97 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 181 applications across Dukes Ward. We hold 1,054 applications in total for the PR9 postcode area.

82% of amendment 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 9BA
Application type
Certificate of lawfulness (existing use)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 March 2024
Consultation expiry
30 March 2024
Consultation end
30 March 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Rod Ainsworth Architect
Agent address
27 Upper Aughton Road Birkdale Southport PR8 5NA

Additional information

Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: Southport HMO
  • 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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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.

© 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.

Source: Sefton

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