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13 - 15 Church Street St Helens Merseyside WA10 1BA

P/2019/0605/FULFull Planning ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 14 October 2019

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of first and second floors to provide 9No. flats, new front entrance, alterations to windows on the front elevation and additional windows in the side and rear elevations.

Received
16 August 2019
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Town Centre Ward
Agent
Lawrenson Associates
  1. Received16 Aug
  2. Validated19 Aug
  3. Consult.10 Sep
  4. Target14 Oct
  5. Decided14 Oct

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 13 - 15 Church Street St Helens Merseyside WA10 1BA. 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 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application 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 1BA
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 August 2019
Consultation expiry
23 September 2019
Consultation start
20 August 2019
Consultation end
10 September 2019
Neighbour consultation start
20 August 2019
Neighbour consultation end
11 September 2019
Last date for comments
11 September 2019
Target decision date
14 October 2019
Permission expires
14 October 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent
Lawrenson Associates
Agent address
The Globe 142 Hardshaw Street St Helens WA10 1JT

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
2 September 2019
Site notice end
23 September 2019

Additional information

Documents
14
Constraints
59

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Victoria SquarePart of the site
  • Brownfield land register: 8-12 Ormskirk Street, Town Centre, St Helens, WA10 1BJRegister site at or near this address · +1 more
  • 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 (20)

flood storage 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 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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© 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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Associated applications

  1. 2020
    19 Aug

    Discharge of conditions 3 and 4 on approval P/2019/0605/FUL

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsC/2020/0068/CON
  2. 2020
    1 Jul

    Non material amendment to approval P/2019/0605/FUL

    ApprovedNon-material amendmentAmendmentA/2020/0022/NMA
  3. 2019
    16 Aug

    Change of use of first and second floors to provide 9No. flats, new front entrance, alterations to windows on…

    This applicationApprovedFullP/2019/0605/FUL

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