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15 Foxwood Rainhill St Helens WA9 5UH

P/2014/0651Full Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 2 October 2014

Council decision: Full Plans Grant ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Conversion and enlargement of garage to granny flat.

Received
23 July 2014
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Eccleston Ward
  1. Received23 Jul
  2. Validated19 Aug
  3. Consult.10 Sep
  4. Target14 Oct
  5. Decided2 Oct

Decided in 44 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a garage at 15 Foxwood Rainhill St Helens WA9 5UH. St Helens has handled 2,576 applications of this type. This one was decided in 71 days, 2 weeks longer than St Helens's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 36 applications across Eccleston Ward. We hold 1,076 applications in total for the WA9 postcode area.

93% of full applications at St Helens 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
WA9 5UH
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Eccleston Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 August 2014
Consultation expiry
10 September 2014
Consultation start
20 August 2014
Consultation end
10 September 2014
Neighbour consultation start
20 August 2014
Last date for comments
10 September 2014
Target decision date
14 October 2014
Committee meeting
30 September 2014
Permission expires
1 October 2017

Applicant and agent

Agent address
1 COMMON STREET NEWTON LE WILLOWS ST HELENS WA12 9JW

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
14
Constraints
19

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (22)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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

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© 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.

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