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Manchester And Provincial Car Parks, Skate Academy Academy Street, Bewsey And Whitecross, Warrington, WA1 2BJ

2017/30830Screening OpinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 4 August 2017

Council decision: Screening Opinion IssuedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Request for an EIA Screening Opinion: Proposed 9 storey building comprising 144 residential dwellings, up to 650 sqm commercial/retail space on ground floor and associated parking.

Received
14 July 2017
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bewsey and Whitecross
  1. Received14 Jul
  2. Validated14 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided4 Aug

Decided in 21 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application at Manchester And Provincial Car Parks, Skate Academy Academy Street, Bewsey And Whitecross, Warrington, WA1 2BJ. Warrington has handled 1,082 applications of this type. This one was decided in 21 days, 5 weeks quicker than Warrington's typical decision time. The site is in the Buttermarket Street conservation area, with 6 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 104 applications across Bewsey and Whitecross. We hold 481 applications in total for the WA1 postcode area.

84% of outline applications at Warrington Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
WA1 2BJ
Application type
Screening Opinion
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
144
Parish
UNPARISHED AREA

Planning application dates

Date validated
14 July 2017
Application expires
3 August 2017

Planning decision

Statutory period
20 days

Additional information

Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Buttermarket Street
  • Brownfield land register: Site of former Kwik Save, Academy Way/Buttermarket Street, Warrington, WA1 2BJRegister 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 (20)

flood storage 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 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.

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: Warrington

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