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2 Langdale Avenue Formby L37 2LB

DC/2025/01163Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed UseRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 26 August 2025

Council decision: Certificate Not IssuedDelegated (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

Certificate of lawfulness for the proposed creation a covered walkway with two skylights and opaque glass to the side of the dwellinghouse

Received
17 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Harington Ward
  1. Received17 Jul
  2. Validated17 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided26 Aug

Decided in 40 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a new dwelling at 2 Langdale Avenue Formby L37 2LB. Sefton has handled 368 applications of this type. This one was decided in 40 days, 2 weeks quicker than Sefton's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 110 applications across Harington 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 2LB
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed Use
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Formby Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 July 2025

Additional information

Documents
8

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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