47-49 Church Street St Helens Merseyside WA10 1AX
Approved on 21 November 2018
Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use from first floor retail to offices along with new shop front.
- Received
- 8 October 2018
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Ward
- Town Centre Ward
- ReceivedReceived8 Oct
- ValidatedValidated8 Oct
- Consult.Consultation31 Oct
- TargetTarget Date3 Dec
- DecidedDecided21 Nov
Decided in 44 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 47-49 Church Street St Helens Merseyside WA10 1AX. St Helens has handled 2,576 applications of this type. This one was decided in 44 days, 12 days quicker than St Helens's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 55 applications across Town Centre Ward. We hold 825 applications in total for the WA10 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
- WA10 1AX
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 8 October 2018
- Consultation expiry
- 15 November 2018
- Consultation start
- 10 October 2018
- Consultation end
- 31 October 2018
- Neighbour consultation start
- 10 October 2018
- Neighbour consultation end
- 31 October 2018
- Last date for comments
- 15 November 2018
- Target decision date
- 3 December 2018
- Permission expires
- 21 November 2021
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 83 Exeter Place Northampton NN1 4DQ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 25 October 2018
- Advertisement expiry
- 15 November 2018
- Site notice start
- 11 October 2018
- Site notice end
- 1 November 2018
Additional information
- Documents
- 13
- Constraints
- 21
Site constraints
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.
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