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Podmores Metal Merchants, 1 Orchard Street, Fairfield And Howley, Warrington, WA1 2TE

2023/01241/PA3MAPart 3 (Class MA) Prior ApprovalWithdrawn
Outline / PiP

Withdrawn

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

Proposal

Conversion of former office space (Use Class E(g)(iii)) to C3 residential

Received
6 October 2023
Ward
Fairfield and Howley
  1. Received6 Oct
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.22 Nov
  4. Target
  5. Decided

About this application

This is an outline application at Podmores Metal Merchants, 1 Orchard Street, Fairfield And Howley, Warrington, WA1 2TE. Warrington has handled 1,082 applications of this type. The site is in 3 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 24 applications across Fairfield and Howley. 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 2TE
Application type
Part 3 (Class MA) Prior Approval

Planning application dates

Validated
6 October 2023
Consultation expiry
22 November 2023
Consultation end
22 November 2023

Planning decision

Decision
Withdrawn

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Brownfield land register: Car Wash SUDS, Church Street, Warrington, WA1 2SYRegister site at or near this address · +1 more
  • 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 (21)

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 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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