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Land Adjacent To 5 Exchange Place Rainhill St Helens L35 4ND

P/2020/0710/FULFull Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 8 January 2021

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of existing detached store room and erection of 1no retail unit along with 1no first floor flat.

Received
28 September 2020
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Rainhill Ward
Agent
Lucas Design
  1. Received28 Sep
  2. Validated28 Sep
  3. Consult.22 Oct
  4. Target23 Nov
  5. Decided8 Jan

Decided in 102 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Land Adjacent To 5 Exchange Place Rainhill St Helens L35 4ND. St Helens has handled 2,576 applications of this type. This one was decided in 102 days, 7 weeks longer than St Helens's typical decision time. The site is in the Rainhill conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. 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 4ND
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Rainhill Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 September 2020
Consultation expiry
7 January 2021
Consultation start
1 October 2020
Consultation end
22 October 2020
Neighbour consultation start
7 October 2020
Neighbour consultation end
28 October 2020
Last date for comments
28 October 2020
Target decision date
23 November 2020
Permission expires
8 January 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent
Lucas Design
Agent address
22 Weaver Avenue Rainhill Prescot L35 0NR

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
17 December 2020
Advertisement expiry
7 January 2021

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
28
Constraints
13

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Rainhill+1 more
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Rainhill, St Helens
  • 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, 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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© 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.

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