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1B Castle Street Southport

DC/2025/00235Full ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 6 May 2025

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Change of use from light industrial premises to two dwellings and the erection of single storey extensions to the side and front elevations including alterations to the existing single storey roof to form a mansard roof with roof windows (Retrospective) (alternative to DC/2016/02348 approved 29 March 2017)

Received
12 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Dukes Ward
  1. Received12 Feb
  2. Validated12 Feb
  3. Consult.16 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided6 May

Decided in 83 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 1B Castle Street Southport. Sefton has handled 1,804 applications of this type. This one was decided in 83 days, 4 weeks longer than Sefton's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 181 applications across Dukes Ward.

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

Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 February 2025
Consultation expiry
16 March 2025
Consultation end
16 March 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Woolrich Hunter
Agent address
2B The Boskins Church Road Tarleton PR4 6UP

Additional information

Documents
9

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

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    9 Apr

    Variation of condition 3 pursuant to planning permission DC/2025/00235

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)DC/2026/00630
  2. 2025
    12 Feb

    Change of use from light industrial premises to two dwellings and the erection of single storey extensions to…

    This applicationApprovedFullDC/2025/00235

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