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Alder Lane Farmhouse Alder Lane Crank St Helens WA11 7SH

P/2023/0029/HHFPHouseholder Planning ApplicationRefused
Householder

Refused on 17 March 2023

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Demolition of the existing garage and the installation of a new timber frame garage.

Received
28 December 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Rainford Ward
  1. Received28 Dec
  2. Validated20 Jan
  3. Consult.13 Feb
  4. Target17 Mar
  5. Decided17 Mar

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Alder Lane Farmhouse Alder Lane Crank St Helens WA11 7SH. St Helens has handled 2,576 applications of this type. This one was decided in 79 days, 3 weeks longer than St Helens's typical decision time. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Rainford Ward. We hold 608 applications in total for the WA11 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
WA11 7SH
Application type
Householder Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Rainford Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 January 2023
Consultation expiry
9 March 2023
Consultation start
23 January 2023
Consultation end
13 February 2023
Neighbour consultation start
24 January 2023
Neighbour consultation end
14 February 2023
Last date for comments
9 March 2023
Target decision date
17 March 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
16 February 2023
Advertisement expiry
9 March 2023
Site notice start
8 February 2023
Site notice end
1 March 2023

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-11803273
Comments
0
Documents
9
Constraints
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: 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 (21)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

Source: St Helens

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