Two Butt Lane Open Space Two Butt Lane Rainhill St Helens
Approved on 4 November 2022
Council decision: GrantPlanning committee
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Proposal
Creation of 1.8m wide footpath
- Received
- 31 August 2022
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Ward
- Rainhill Ward
- ReceivedReceived31 Aug
- ValidatedValidated5 Sep
- Consult.Consultation15 Nov
- TargetTarget Date31 Oct
- DecidedDecided4 Nov
Decided in 60 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Two Butt Lane Open Space Two Butt Lane Rainhill St Helens. St Helens has handled 2,576 applications of this type. This one was decided in 65 days, 9 days longer than St Helens's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 47 applications across Rainhill Ward.
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
- Application type
- Full Planning Permission: Regulation 3
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Rainhill Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 5 September 2022
- Consultation expiry
- 15 November 2022
- Consultation start
- 25 October 2022
- Consultation end
- 15 November 2022
- Neighbour consultation start
- 13 September 2022
- Neighbour consultation end
- 4 October 2022
- Last date for comments
- 4 October 2022
- Target decision date
- 31 October 2022
- Committee meeting
- 1 November 2022
- Permission expires
- 4 November 2025
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
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 (21)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, 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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