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45 Benedict Street Bootle L20 2EJ

DC/2025/02045Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed UseApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 17 February 2026

Council decision: Certificate Issued - Proposed UseDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for the proposed change of use from a dwellinghouse (C3) to a residential children's home providing care for no more than a single child (C2).

Received
23 December 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Linacre Ward
Agent
O'Rourke-Designs
  1. Received23 Dec
  2. Validated23 Dec
  3. Consult.5 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided17 Feb

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 45 Benedict Street Bootle L20 2EJ. Sefton has handled 368 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 35 applications across Linacre Ward. We hold 177 applications in total for the L20 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
L20 2EJ
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness - Proposed Use
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 December 2025
Consultation expiry
5 February 2026
Consultation end
5 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
O'Rourke-Designs
Agent address
9 Swansea Close Garston Liverpool L19 2HF

Additional information

Documents
5

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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