Merchant Taylors School For Girls Liverpool Road Crosby L23 5SP
Proposal
Listed Building Consent for the demolition of various of buildings across the site, refurbishment and limited remodelling of the educational buildings retained, provision of additional car parking, taxi drop off/collection facility, alterations to the primary access off Liverpool Road, new hard and soft landscaping and boundary fencing / walls to bring the vacant school site back into educational use.
- Received
- 7 September 2026
- Public comments
- 0 · last counted 17 October 2026
- Ward
- Great Crosby Ward
- ReceivedSubmitted7 Sep
- ValidatedValidated7 Sep
- Consult.Consultation28 Oct
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided
This is a planning application for demolition at Merchant Taylors School For Girls Liverpool Road Crosby L23 5SP. Sefton has handled 4,145 applications of this type and approves 91% of them, typically deciding them in 54 days. It was submitted on 7 September 2026 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 11 applications across Great Crosby Ward. We hold 329 applications in total for the L23 postcode area.
Application Details
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Planning Application Dates
Planning Decision
Publicity
Appeal
Additional Information
Source: Sefton
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Associated applications
- 20267 Sep
Demolition of various of buildings across the site, refurbishment and limited remodelling of the educational…
PendingApplicationFiled alongsideDC/2026/01492 - 20267 Sep
Listed Building Consent for the demolition of various of buildings across the site, refurbishment and limited…
This applicationPendingListed building consentDC/2026/01493
Planning constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Listed building: Grade II*: Merchant Taylors School (Girls) That Portion Which Was the Original FoundationOn this site
- Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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.
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This is an application for listed building consent.
- 4.3 miLiverpoolRICS Regulated
- 5.8 miLIVERPOOLRTPI
- 5.9 miLiverpoolRTPI
Nearest first, within 25 miles of the site. Every firm is listed free.
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