19 Hardshaw Street St Helens WA10 1QX
Approved on 2 October 2020
Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Change of use of solicitors office to sub-divide existing offices to form 7no one bed flats, with retention of 2no offices to ground floor front elevation.
- Received
- 20 July 2020
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 4
- Ward
- Town Centre Ward
- Agent
- PKL Partners Limited
- ReceivedReceived20 Jul
- ValidatedValidated21 Jul
- Consult.Consultation18 Aug
- TargetTarget Date15 Sep
- DecidedDecided2 Oct
Decided in 73 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at 19 Hardshaw Street St Helens WA10 1QX. St Helens has handled 2,576 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 3 weeks longer than St Helens's typical decision time. The site is in the Victoria Square conservation area, with 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 1QX
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Small
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 21 July 2020
- Consultation expiry
- 27 August 2020
- Consultation start
- 28 July 2020
- Consultation end
- 18 August 2020
- Neighbour consultation start
- 29 July 2020
- Neighbour consultation end
- 19 August 2020
- Last date for comments
- 27 August 2020
- Target decision date
- 15 September 2020
- Permission expires
- 2 October 2023
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- PKL Partners Limited
- Architect profile
- PKL PARTNERS LIMITED
- Agent address
- C/O 17 Brookside Avenue Eccleston St.Helens WA10 4RN United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 6 August 2020
- Advertisement expiry
- 27 August 2020
- Site notice start
- 3 August 2020
- Site notice end
- 24 August 2020
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-08902870
- Documents
- 14
- Constraints
- 20
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Conservation area: Victoria SquarePart of the site
- Brownfield land register: 23A Hardshaw Street, Town Centre, St Helens, WA10 1RTRegister 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 (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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