Longton Lane Community Primary School Longton Lane Rainhill St Helens L35 8PB
Approved on 25 August 2023
Council decision: GrantPlanning committee
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Proposal
Demolition of existing school buildings and removal of hardstanding and car park areas. Construction of a two-storey school building (Class F1(a)), a sheltered seating area covered by PV Panels, new parking arrangements, provision of hard and soft landscaping and associated infrastructure, including roof top PV Panels to the main building.
- Received
- 8 March 2023
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Ward
- Rainhill Ward
- ReceivedReceived8 Mar
- ValidatedValidated8 Mar
- Consult.Consultation2 Aug
- TargetTarget Date7 Jun
- DecidedDecided25 Aug
Decided in 170 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application for demolition at Longton Lane Community Primary School Longton Lane Rainhill St Helens L35 8PB. St Helens has handled 2,576 applications of this type. This one was decided in 170 days, 16 weeks longer than St Helens's typical decision time. There have been 10 other applications 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 8PB
- Application type
- Full Planning Application
- Scale / size
- Large
- Parish
- Rainhill Parish Council
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 8 March 2023
- Consultation expiry
- 2 August 2023
- Consultation start
- 26 July 2023
- Consultation end
- 2 August 2023
- Neighbour consultation start
- 20 June 2023
- Neighbour consultation end
- 4 April 2023
- Last date for comments
- 13 April 2023
- Target decision date
- 7 June 2023
- Committee meeting
- 27 June 2023
- Permission expires
- 25 August 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- Iceni Projects
- Agent address
- WeWork Dalton Place 29 John Dalton Street Manchester M2 6DS
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 91 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 23 March 2023
- Advertisement expiry
- 13 April 2023
- Site notice start
- 16 March 2023
- Site notice end
- 6 April 2023
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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2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: St Helens
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