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Former Kwik Save (now Skate Adademy), and adjacent car park, Academy Street, Warrington, WA1 2NP

2020/36592Non-Material AmendmentApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 12 March 2020

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

Proposal

Non Material Amendment - Proposed amendment to brick selection introducing brick type 5 (Oakwood Multi Solid) and omission of level 7 window to the north east elevation from application 2019/35981 (Residential and commercial use)

Received
20 February 2020
Ward
Bewsey and Whitecross
  1. Received20 Feb
  2. Validated20 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided12 Mar

Decided in 21 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Former Kwik Save (now Skate Adademy), and adjacent car park, Academy Street, Warrington, WA1 2NP. Warrington has handled 594 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 5 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.

86% of amendment 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 2NP
Application type
Non-Material Amendment
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Unparished Area

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 February 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Croxley House, 14 Lloyd Street, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M2 5ND

Additional information

Documents
7

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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