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1-3 Priory Court, Warrington, WA1 2NP

2022/41983Full PlanningApproved
Full

Approved on 6 October 2022

Council decision: GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Refurbishment and reconfiguration of existing church hall to provide a mix of ancillary uses, including church administration and meeting spaces on the ground floor, a flexible church hall space on the first floor and visiting clergy and pilgrim accommodation on the second floor, plus installation of external escape stairs.

Received
9 June 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Bewsey and Whitecross
  1. Received9 Jun
  2. Validated2 Aug
  3. Consult.24 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided6 Oct

Decided in 65 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 1-3 Priory Court, Warrington, WA1 2NP. Warrington has handled 7,181 applications of this type. This one was decided in 119 days, 9 weeks longer 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.

82% of full 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
Full Planning
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
2 August 2022
Consultation expiry
24 August 2022
Consultation end
24 August 2022
Application expires
6 October 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
65 days

Additional information

Documents
12

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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