The Farm Otters Swift Farm Carr Mill Road Billinge St Helens WN5 7TZ
Approved on 16 December 2025
Council decision: Prior Not RequiredDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Prior approval for agricultural building.
- Received
- 25 November 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Billinge And Seneley Green Ward
- ReceivedReceived25 Nov
- ValidatedValidated25 Nov
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date23 Dec
- DecidedDecided16 Dec
Decided in 21 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at The Farm Otters Swift Farm Carr Mill Road Billinge St Helens WN5 7TZ. St Helens has handled 441 applications of this type. This one was decided in 21 days, 5 weeks quicker than St Helens's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 32 applications across Billinge And Seneley Green Ward. We hold 250 applications in total for the WN5 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
- WN5 7TZ
- Application type
- Agriculture Prior Approval
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Billinge Chapel End Parish
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 25 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 23 December 2025
- Permission expires
- 15 December 2030
Applicant and agent
- Agent
- P Wilson & Company
- Agent address
- Burlington House 10-11 Ribblesdale Place Preston PR1 3NA
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 28 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
- Green belt: St. Helens
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, conservation areas, 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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