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Merton House Stanley Road Bootle L20 3DL

DC/2025/00149Prior notification commercial (56 days)Approved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 27 June 2025

Council decision: Prior Approval Reqd + ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)7 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Prior Approval submission for the change of use of Merton House from office accommodation (Class E) to 140 no. residential apartments (Class C3) (Valid 31.01.2025).

Received
31 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Linacre Ward
  1. Received31 Jan
  2. Validated31 Jan
  3. Consult.10 Apr
  4. Target
  5. Decided27 Jun

Decided in 147 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Merton House Stanley Road Bootle L20 3DL. Sefton has handled 368 applications of this type. This one was decided in 147 days, 13 weeks longer than Sefton's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 35 applications across Linacre Ward. We hold 179 applications in total for the L20 postcode area.

82% of outline 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
L20 3DL
Application type
Prior notification commercial (56 days)
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
140

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 January 2025
Consultation expiry
10 April 2025
Consultation end
10 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
Baltic PDC
Agent address
Queen's Dock Business Centre 69 Norfolk Street Liverpool L1 0BG

Planning decision

Case officer
Diane Humphreys

Publicity

Site notice end
28 February 2025

Additional information

Documents
26

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Article 4 direction: Bootle and Waterloo HMO
  • Brownfield land register: Merton House, Stanley Road, BootleRegister site at or near this address · +1 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

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 and heritage coasts.

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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