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31 - 33 Church Street St Helens Merseyside WA10 1AX

P/2018/0752/FULFull Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 11 December 2018

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Change of use of public highway to pavement cafe.

Received
8 October 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Town Centre Ward
  1. Received8 Oct
  2. Validated23 Oct
  3. Consult.15 Nov
  4. Target18 Dec
  5. Decided11 Dec

Decided in 49 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 31 - 33 Church Street St Helens Merseyside WA10 1AX. St Helens has handled 2,576 applications of this type. This one was decided in 64 days, 8 days longer 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
23 October 2018
Consultation expiry
8 December 2018
Consultation start
25 October 2018
Consultation end
15 November 2018
Last date for comments
8 December 2018
Target decision date
18 December 2018
Permission expires
11 December 2021

Applicant and agent

Agent
Savills
Agent address
Savills (UK) Limited Belvedere 12 Booth Street Manchester M2 4AW United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
14 November 2018
Site notice end
8 December 2018

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-07298754
Documents
10
Constraints
16

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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

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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