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St Annes R C Church Timms Lane Formby

DC/2025/01474Permission In PrincipleApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 18 March 2026

Council decision: ApproveDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Permission in Principle for the construction of 5 detached houses following the demolition of existing disused church and presbytery.

Received
17 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Harington Ward
Agent
RAL Architects
  1. Received17 Sep
  2. Validated17 Sep
  3. Consult.2 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided18 Mar

Decided in 182 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at St Annes R C Church Timms Lane Formby. Sefton has handled 368 applications of this type. This one was decided in 182 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 110 applications across Harington Ward.

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

Application type
Permission In Principle
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Formby Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 September 2025
Consultation expiry
2 February 2026
Consultation end
2 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
RAL Architects
Architect profile
RAL ARCHITECTS LIMITED
Agent address
Studio 23 Princes Street Southport PR8 1EG

Publicity

Site notice end
25 October 2025

Additional information

Documents
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Tree Preservation Order: TPO20Part of the site · +6 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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

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© 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.

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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    28 Jul

    Tree Preservation Order application to fell tagged 869-883

    ApprovedTPO consentDC/2026/01179

Source: Sefton

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