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88 St James Road Rainhill St Helens L35 0PG

P/2025/0510/COTWorks to Trees in a Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 7 October 2025

Council decision: TPO Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Works to trees in a Conservation Area to fell 2no norway maples.

Received
4 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Rainhill Ward
  1. Received4 Sep
  2. Validated4 Sep
  3. Consult.30 Sep
  4. Target16 Oct
  5. Decided7 Oct

Decided in 33 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a tree application at 88 St James Road Rainhill St Helens L35 0PG. St Helens has handled 202 applications of this type. This one was decided in 33 days, 3 weeks quicker than St Helens's typical decision time. The site is in the Rainhill conservation area. There have been 2 other applications 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.

96% of trees 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 0PG
Application type
Works to Trees in a Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Rainhill Parish Council

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 September 2025
Consultation expiry
30 September 2025
Consultation start
9 September 2025
Consultation end
30 September 2025
Last date for comments
30 September 2025
Target decision date
16 October 2025
Permission expires
4 September 2027

Applicant and agent

Agent
Ascerta
Agent address
Mere One Mere Grange Elton Head Road St Helens WA9 5GG

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Publicity

Site notice start
9 September 2025
Site notice end
30 September 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14306632
Documents
9
Constraints
28

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Rainhill+1 more
  • Heritage at Risk Register: Rainhill, St Helens
  • Brownfield land register: 92 St James Road, Rainhill, St Helens, L35 0PGRegister site at or near this address
  • 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 (19)

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 and heritage coasts.

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

  1. 2025
    4 Sep

    Works to trees in a Conservation Area to fell 2no norway maples.

    This applicationApprovedTreesP/2025/0510/COT
  2. 2025
    4 Sep

    Works to trees in a Conservation Area to fell 2no norway maples.

    PendingTPO ConsentPart ofP/2025/0510/TPO

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    10 Jan

    Works to Oak (T3) and Chestnut (T4) under TPO.

    ApprovedTPO ConsentP/2026/0026/TPO

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