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3 Bull Cop Formby L37 8BY

DC/2025/01097Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed UseApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 26 September 2025

Council decision: Certificate Issued - Proposed UseDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for the proposed dormers to both sides, installation of 2 roof lights, erection of a single storey side extension to one side of the dwelling and new garage on the opposite side along with erection of new porch following demolition of existing.

Received
21 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ravenmeols Ward
  1. Received21 Jul
  2. Validated21 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided26 Sep

Decided in 67 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at 3 Bull Cop Formby L37 8BY. Sefton has handled 368 applications of this type. This one was decided in 67 days, 11 days longer than Sefton's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 50 applications across Ravenmeols Ward. We hold 814 applications in total for the L37 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
L37 8BY
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Formby Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
21 July 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Malbrean
Agent address
60 Elm Road Seaforth Liverpool L21 1BL

Additional information

Documents
20

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

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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