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2 - 4 Cotham Street St Helens WA10 1SA

P/2025/0669/FULFull Planning ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 12 February 2026

Council decision: GrantDelegated (officer decision)5 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
Boundary © HM Land Registry, © Ordnance Survey · details

This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Change of use of ground floor from shop (Class E) and erection of an extension to form 1no. self contained apartment (Class C3), together with associated internal alterations.

Received
27 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Town Centre Ward
  1. Received27 Nov
  2. Validated15 Dec
  3. Consult.5 Feb
  4. Target9 Feb
  5. Decided12 Feb

Decided in 59 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at 2 - 4 Cotham Street St Helens WA10 1SA. St Helens has handled 2,576 applications of this type. This one was decided in 77 days, 3 weeks longer than St Helens's typical decision time. 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 1SA
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 December 2025
Consultation expiry
5 February 2026
Consultation start
29 January 2026
Consultation end
5 February 2026
Neighbour consultation start
16 December 2025
Neighbour consultation end
9 January 2026
Last date for comments
11 January 2026
Target decision date
9 February 2026
Permission expires
12 February 2029

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
18 December 2025
Site notice end
11 January 2026

Additional information

Documents
18
Constraints
31

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2026
    16 Jul

    Non-material amendment to application P/2025/0669/FUL

    Non-material amendmentAmendmentA/2026/0026/NMA
  2. 2026
    19 Jun

    Discharge of condition 4 (Internal Noise Levels) on approval P/2025/0669/FUL

    Discharge of conditionsC/2026/0101/CON
  3. 2025
    27 Nov

    Change of use of ground floor from shop (Class E) and erection of an extension to form 1no. self contained…

    This applicationApprovedFullP/2025/0669/FUL

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