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Norwood Car Sales Ltd 170 Norwood Road Southport PR8 6EE

DC/2024/01601Full ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 22 January 2025

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from a car sales garage with a car wash bay and parking (Sui Generis) to a vehicle rental premises (Sui Generis) including the implementation of a wash bay and car parking (including rental vehicle storage), installation of a new shopfront and associated works

Received
22 October 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Norwood Ward
Agent
Planning Prospects Ltd
  1. Received22 Oct
  2. Validated22 Oct
  3. Consult.1 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 Jan

Decided in 92 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a garage at Norwood Car Sales Ltd 170 Norwood Road Southport PR8 6EE. Sefton has handled 1,804 applications of this type. This one was decided in 92 days, 5 weeks longer than Sefton's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 38 applications across Norwood Ward. We hold 1,090 applications in total for the PR8 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
PR8 6EE
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 October 2024
Consultation expiry
1 January 2025
Consultation end
1 January 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Planning Prospects Ltd
Agent address
4 Mill Pool Nash Lane Belbroughton Worcestershire DY9 9AF United Kingdom

Publicity

Site notice end
1 December 2024

Additional information

Documents
27

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.

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.

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Source: Sefton

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