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19 Palace Road Birkdale PR8 2BY

DC/2025/01687Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed UseRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 17 December 2025

Council decision: Certificate Not IssuedDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

New metal fence (including gate) set 1m behind the existing boundary wall, the new fence is to continue down both side boundaries up to the front of the existing building. The raising of the existing balcony balustrade by inserting a new glazed screen behind the existing stone balustrade

Received
27 October 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Dukes Ward
Agent
Andrew Cunningham Building Design Ltd
  1. Received27 Oct
  2. Validated27 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided17 Dec

Decided in 51 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at 19 Palace Road Birkdale PR8 2BY. Sefton has handled 368 applications of this type. This one was decided in 51 days, 5 days quicker than Sefton's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 181 applications across Dukes Ward. We hold 1,090 applications in total for the PR8 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
PR8 2BY
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 October 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
Andrew Cunningham Building Design Ltd
Architect profile
ANDREW CUNNINGHAM BUILDING DESIGN LIMITED
Agent address
28 Union Street Southport PR9 0QE

Additional information

Documents
10

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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    8 Jul

    Proposed new boundary walls and new screen to existing balcony.

    ApprovedHouseholderDC/2026/01147

Source: Sefton

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