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5 Dee Road Rainhill St Helens L35 9LG

P/2025/0343/CLPCertificate of Lawfulness: ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 1 August 2025

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for proposed change of use from dwellinghouse (C3) to children's home for 1no child (C2).

Received
9 June 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Rainhill Ward
  1. Received9 Jun
  2. Validated9 Jun
  3. Consult.
  4. Target4 Aug
  5. Decided1 Aug

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 5 Dee Road Rainhill St Helens L35 9LG. St Helens has handled 441 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 3 days quicker than St Helens's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded 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.

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

Postcode
L35 9LG
Application type
Certificate of Lawfulness: Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Rainhill Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 June 2025
Target decision date
4 August 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
222 Thomas Drive Liverpool L14 3LF

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14080807
Comments
0
Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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.

Source: St Helens

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