Cooper Street Open Space Cooper Street St Helens
Approved on 18 April 2024
Council decision: GrantPlanning committee
Proposal
Construction of Pocket Park facility at the land bound by Cooper Street, Chapel Street and Halefield Street
- Received
- 2 February 2024
- Decision level
- Planning committee
- Public comments
- 2
- Ward
- Windle Ward
- ReceivedReceived2 Feb
- ValidatedValidated7 Feb
- Consult.Consultation30 Apr
- TargetTarget Date3 Apr
- DecidedDecided18 Apr
Decided in 71 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Cooper Street Open Space Cooper Street St Helens. St Helens has handled 2,576 applications of this type. This one was decided in 76 days, 3 weeks longer than St Helens's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Windle 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
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 7 February 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 30 April 2024
- Consultation start
- 9 April 2024
- Consultation end
- 30 April 2024
- Neighbour consultation start
- 9 April 2024
- Neighbour consultation end
- 12 March 2024
- Last date for comments
- 14 March 2024
- Target decision date
- 3 April 2024
- Committee meeting
- 16 April 2024
- Permission expires
- 18 April 2027
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 22 February 2024
- Site notice end
- 14 March 2024
Additional information
- Documents
- 33
- Constraints
- 9
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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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Associated applications
- 202430 Aug
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ApprovedDischarge of conditionsC/2024/0107/CON - 202421 Jun
Non material amendment on approval P/2024/0069/FP3
ApprovedNon-material amendmentAmendmentA/2024/0030/NMA - 20242 Feb
Construction of Pocket Park facility at the land bound by Cooper Street, Chapel Street and Halefield Street
This applicationApprovedFullP/2024/0069/FP3
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