36 - 38 Church Street St Helens Merseyside WA10 1AD
Approved on 10 December 2018
Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Retention of change of use from part of public highway to pavement cafe.
- Received
- 10 October 2018
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Town Centre Ward
- Agent
- Gerald Eve LLP
- ReceivedReceived10 Oct
- ValidatedValidated16 Oct
- Consult.Consultation8 Dec
- TargetTarget Date11 Dec
- DecidedDecided10 Dec
Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 36 - 38 Church Street St Helens Merseyside WA10 1AD. St Helens has handled 2,576 applications of this type. This one was decided in 61 days, 5 days longer 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 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 1AD
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 16 October 2018
- Consultation expiry
- 8 December 2018
- Last date for comments
- 8 December 2018
- Target decision date
- 11 December 2018
- Permission expires
- 10 December 2021
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Gerald Eve LLP
- Agent address
- Avebury House 201-249 Avebury Boulevard Milton Keynes MK9 1AU
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 14 November 2018
- Site notice end
- 8 December 2018
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: George Street QuarterPart of the site
- Brownfield land register: Raven Lodge, 113 Church Street, St. Helens, WA10 1AJRegister site at or near this address
- 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 (19)
flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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 and heritage coasts.
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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