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St Helens Bus Station Bickerstaffe Street St Helens

P/2025/0235/RESReserved MattersAwaiting decision
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Proposal

Application for Phase 2 Reserved Matters approval for access, appearance, landscaping, layout, and scale in relation to a multi-modal interchange with ancillary integral welfare facilities (Use Class Sui Generis); a travel centre (Use Class Sui Generis); commercial units (Use Classes E(a) and E(b)); and associated landscaping, parking, and servicing.

Received
24 March 2025
Decision due
23 June 2025
Public comments
6
Ward
Town Centre Ward
Agent
CBRE Ltd
  1. Received24 Mar
  2. Validated24 Mar
  3. Consult.1 May
  4. Target23 Jun
  5. Decided

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Comments close on 1 May.

Comment on the council's siteDocuments (93)

About this application

This is an outline application at St Helens Bus Station Bickerstaffe Street St Helens. St Helens has handled 441 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 24 March 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in the George Street conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 55 applications across Town Centre Ward.

88% of outline 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
Reserved Matters
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 March 2025
Consultation expiry
8 May 2025
Consultation start
10 April 2025
Consultation end
1 May 2025
Last date for comments
8 May 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent
CBRE Ltd
Agent address
10th Floor One St Peter's Square Manchester M2 3DE

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
17 April 2025
Advertisement expiry
8 May 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13634087
Documents
93
Constraints
156

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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