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96 Ashton Avenue Rainhill St Helens L35 0QR

P/2023/0618/HHFPHouseholder Planning ApplicationRefused
Householder

Refused on 22 December 2023

Council decision: Refuse

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Retention of timber fencing to the rear boundary, safety railing to the southern boundary, rendered masonry walls and pillars with infill railings and automatic gate to the front boundary.

Received
23 October 2023
Public comments
4
Ward
Rainhill Ward
  1. Received23 Oct
  2. Validated30 Oct
  3. Consult.4 Jan
  4. Target25 Dec
  5. Decided22 Dec

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 96 Ashton Avenue Rainhill St Helens L35 0QR. St Helens has handled 2,576 applications of this type. This one was decided in 60 days, 4 days longer than St Helens's typical decision time. The site is in 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 0QR
Application type
Householder Planning Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Rainhill Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
30 October 2023
Consultation expiry
4 January 2024
Consultation start
14 December 2023
Consultation end
4 January 2024
Neighbour consultation start
7 November 2023
Neighbour consultation end
28 November 2023
Last date for comments
21 December 2023
Target decision date
25 December 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
2 Paddocks Close Upper Lighthorne Leamington Spa CV338AZ United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal history

3337982
Dismissed
Type: Householder (HAS)Procedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 13 May 2024Dev Type: Householder developmentsReason: Refusal

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12542438
Documents
18
Constraints
18

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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.

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.

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