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P And S Selfdrive Station Road Rainhill St Helens L35 0LL

P/2019/0143/FULFull Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 18 April 2019

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use to funeral directors.

Received
18 February 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Rainhill Ward
Agent
MAT Design Limited
  1. Received18 Feb
  2. Validated22 Feb
  3. Consult.20 Mar
  4. Target19 Apr
  5. Decided18 Apr

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at P And S Selfdrive Station Road Rainhill St Helens L35 0LL. St Helens has handled 2,576 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 3 days longer than St Helens's typical decision time. The site is in the Rainhill conservation area, with 3 listed buildings nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 47 applications across Rainhill Ward. We hold 1,084 applications in total for the L35 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
L35 0LL
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Rainhill Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 February 2019
Consultation expiry
4 April 2019
Consultation start
27 February 2019
Consultation end
20 March 2019
Neighbour consultation start
27 February 2019
Neighbour consultation end
20 March 2019
Last date for comments
4 April 2019
Target decision date
19 April 2019
Permission expires
18 April 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent
MAT Design Limited
Agent address
17 Brookside Avenue Eccleston St. Helens WA10 4RN

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
7 March 2019
Advertisement expiry
28 March 2019
Site notice start
14 March 2019
Site notice end
4 April 2019

Additional information

Documents
13
Constraints
39

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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, 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, 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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© 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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Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Associated applications

  1. 2019
    7 Jul

    Variation of condition 2 & 3 on approval P/2019/0143/FUL

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)P/2019/0494/S73
  2. 2019
    18 Feb

    Change of use to funeral directors.

    This applicationApprovedFullP/2019/0143/FUL

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