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47 Canal Street Bootle L20 8AE

DC/2025/01823Approved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 5 February 2026

Council decision: Certificate Issued - Proposed Use

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for the proposed use part of the building as office and canteen, erection of an internal mezzanine structure and use of existing hardstanding for a car park.

Submitted
11 November 2025
Ward
Linacre Ward
  1. Received11 Nov
  2. Validated11 Nov
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided5 Feb

Decided in 86 days

About this application

This is a planning application at 47 Canal Street Bootle L20 8AE. Sefton has handled 4,275 applications of this type. This one was decided in 86 days, 4 weeks longer than Sefton's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 35 applications across Linacre Ward. We hold 179 applications in total for the L20 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
L20 8AE
Parish
Not Available

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Michael Coburn

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.

© 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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