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12 Church Street Southport PR9 0QT

DC/2024/02053Full ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 13 February 2025

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of vacant medical centre (Class E) to SEN School (Class F1) and related external alterations including alterations to car park and creation of external play area.

Received
3 December 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Dukes Ward
  1. Received3 Dec
  2. Validated3 Dec
  3. Consult.4 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided13 Feb

Decided in 72 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 12 Church Street Southport PR9 0QT. Sefton has handled 1,804 applications of this type. This one was decided in 72 days, 2 weeks longer than Sefton's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 181 applications across Dukes Ward. We hold 1,055 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 0QT
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 December 2024
Consultation expiry
11 January 2025
Consultation end
4 January 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Pembroke House 15 Pembroke Road Bristol BS8 3BA

Publicity

Site notice end
11 January 2025

Additional information

Documents
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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.

Source: Sefton

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