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Parklands Lodge Care Home 80 Park Road Southport PR9 9JL

DC/2026/00138Certificate of lawfulness (existing use)Withdrawn
Lawful development certificate

Withdrawn on 29 April 2026

Council decision: Application WithdrawnDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for the existing installation of Solar PV system

Received
23 March 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Cambridge Ward
Agent
Volt Group (Scotland) Ltd
  1. Received23 Mar
  2. Validated23 Mar
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided29 Apr

Decided in 37 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Parklands Lodge Care Home 80 Park Road Southport PR9 9JL. Sefton has handled 135 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 37 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 58 applications across Cambridge Ward. We hold 1,054 applications in total for the PR9 postcode area.

82% of amendment 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
PR9 9JL
Application type
Certificate of lawfulness (existing use)
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent
Volt Group (Scotland) Ltd
Agent address
Office 8000 Academy Park Gower Street Glasgow G31 3LN

Additional information

Documents
4

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Listed building: Methodist Church Hall, Leyland Road, Southport ,On or next to this site · +1 more
  • Article 4 direction: Southport 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    19 Oct

    Retention of Solar PV panels to roof

    PendingApplicationDC/2026/01273

Source: Sefton

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