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Garswood Railway Station Footbridge At Station Road Ashton In Makerfield WN4 0SA

P/2011/0989Development Under Local or Private ActsApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 9 January 2012

Council decision: Prior Notification GrantDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Prior notification under Part 11, Schedule 2 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) Order for alterations to bridge.

Received
5 December 2011
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Billinge And Seneley Green Ward
  1. Received5 Dec
  2. Validated5 Dec
  3. Consult.25 Jan
  4. Target30 Jan
  5. Decided9 Jan

Decided in 35 days

About this application

This is a planning application at Garswood Railway Station Footbridge At Station Road Ashton In Makerfield WN4 0SA. St Helens has handled 4,644 applications of this type. This one was decided in 35 days, 3 weeks quicker than St Helens's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 32 applications across Billinge And Seneley Green Ward. We hold 590 applications in total for the WN4 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
WN4 0SA
Application type
Development Under Local or Private Acts
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Seneley Green Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 December 2011
Consultation expiry
25 January 2012
Consultation start
4 January 2012
Consultation end
25 January 2012
Last date for comments
25 January 2012
Target decision date
30 January 2012
Committee meeting
17 January 2012
Permission expires
8 January 2015

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Square One 4 Travis Street Manchester M1 2NY

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
13
Constraints
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Green belt: St. Helens
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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: St Helens

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