64 Thornton Road Bootle L20 5AR

DC/2025/01781Full ApplicationRefused

Full

Refused on 17 February 2026

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Change of use of a residential dwelling (C3) to a children's care home (C2) for one child

Received: 3 November 2025
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council
Ward: Derby Ward

ReceivedReceived3 Nov
ValidatedValidated3 Nov
Consult.Consultation29 Jan
TargetTarget Date
DecidedDecided17 Feb

Decided in 106 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 64 Thornton Road Bootle L20 5AR. Sefton has handled 1,804 applications of this type. This one was decided in 106 days, 7 weeks longer than Sefton's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 31 applications across Derby Ward. We hold 179 applications in total for the L20 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: L20 5AR
Application type: Full Application
Scale / size: Small

Planning application dates

Date validated: 3 November 2025
Consultation expiry: 29 January 2026
Consultation end: 29 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address: 222 Thomas Drive Liverpool L14 3LF

Publicity

Site notice end: 13 December 2025

Appeal history

6009026

Dismissed

Type: Planning AppealProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 9 September 2026Dev Type: Change of useReason: refused

Additional information

Documents: 6

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Article 4 direction: Bootle and Waterloo 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.

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.

Source: Sefton

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