55 St James Road Rainhill St Helens L35 0PE
Refused on 15 November 2019
Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Retention of 2m high boundary wall and 2m high timber gates.
- Received
- 16 September 2019
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Ward
- Rainhill Ward
- ReceivedReceived16 Sep
- ValidatedValidated23 Sep
- Consult.Consultation16 Oct
- TargetTarget Date18 Nov
- DecidedDecided15 Nov
Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at 55 St James Road Rainhill St Helens L35 0PE. St Helens has handled 2,576 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 4 days longer than St Helens's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application 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 0PE
- Application type
- Householder Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Rainhill Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 23 September 2019
- Consultation expiry
- 17 October 2019
- Consultation start
- 25 September 2019
- Consultation end
- 16 October 2019
- Neighbour consultation start
- 25 September 2019
- Neighbour consultation end
- 16 October 2019
- Last date for comments
- 17 October 2019
- Target decision date
- 18 November 2019
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 1 Tintern Drive Hale WA15 8PE
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 26 September 2019
- Site notice end
- 17 October 2019
Appeal
- Appeal reference
- APP/2020/0004/HHREF
- Appeal status
- Appeal decided
- Appeal result
- Appeal Dismissed
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-08151982
- Documents
- 20
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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Planning history at this site
1 other application at this property, newest first.
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