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Dovehaven Nursing Home 9 - 15 Alexandra Road Southport PR9 0NB

DC/2025/00902Full application - majorApproved
Full

Approved on 3 December 2025

Council decision: Approve with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)15 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of existing derelict care home buildings and erection of new care home and associated car parking and landscaping.

Received
3 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Cambridge Ward
Agent
TDC Architects Ltd.
  1. Received3 Jun
  2. Validated3 Jun
  3. Consult.3 Dec
  4. Target
  5. Decided3 Dec

Decided in 183 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Dovehaven Nursing Home 9 - 15 Alexandra Road Southport PR9 0NB. Sefton has handled 1,804 applications of this type. This one was decided in 183 days, 18 weeks longer than Sefton's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 58 applications across Cambridge Ward. We hold 1,053 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 0NB
Application type
Full application - major
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
3 June 2025
Consultation expiry
3 December 2025
Consultation end
3 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
TDC Architects Ltd.
Architect profile
TDC ARCHITECTS LTD
Agent address
Second Floor Offices 13 Museum Street York YO1 7DT

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
30 July 2025

Additional information

Documents
74

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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2026
    19 Oct

    Discharge of condition 6 (Vehicular access) attached to DC/2025/00902

    PendingDischarge of conditionsDC/2026/01778
  2. 2025
    5 Dec

    Approval of details reserved by condition 3 (Highways Construction Management Plan) and 4 (Construction…

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsDC/2025/01970
  3. 2025
    3 Jun

    Demolition of existing derelict care home buildings and erection of new care home and associated car parking…

    This applicationApprovedFullDC/2025/00902

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