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7 Bickerstaffe Street St Helens Merseyside WA10 1DH

P/2025/0108/FULFull Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 12 June 2025

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Subdivide ground floor retail (Class E) into 2no. separate retail units (Class E). Change of use to first floor from retail (Class E) to 3no person HMO (Class C4) along with external alterations. Two storey side extension and raising of the roof, following the removal of existing attached garage.

Received
20 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
4
Ward
Town Centre Ward
Agent
O'Rourke-Designs
  1. Received20 Feb
  2. Validated20 Feb
  3. Consult.10 Jun
  4. Target17 Apr
  5. Decided12 Jun

Decided in 112 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a two storey side extension at 7 Bickerstaffe Street St Helens Merseyside WA10 1DH. St Helens has handled 2,576 applications of this type. This one was decided in 112 days, 8 weeks longer than St Helens's typical decision time. The site is in the George Street conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 55 applications across Town Centre Ward. We hold 825 applications in total for the WA10 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
WA10 1DH
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 February 2025
Consultation expiry
10 June 2025
Consultation start
3 June 2025
Consultation end
10 June 2025
Neighbour consultation start
1 April 2025
Neighbour consultation end
8 April 2025
Last date for comments
8 April 2025
Target decision date
17 April 2025
Permission expires
12 June 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent
O'Rourke-Designs
Agent address
9 Swansea Close Garston Liverpool L19 2HF

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
13 March 2025
Advertisement expiry
3 April 2025
Site notice start
13 March 2025
Site notice end
3 April 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13789157
Documents
24
Constraints
10

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: George Street Quarter
  • Heritage at Risk Register: George Street, 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 (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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

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© 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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