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Holy Family Convent, 18 Waterford Road, Oxton, Wirral, CH43 6UU

APP/05/06684Full Planning PermissionRefused
Full

Refused on 30 September 2005

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Conversion of former convent to four self contained apartments

Received
18 July 2005
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Claughton
  1. Received18 Jul
  2. Validated11 Aug
  3. Consult.8 Sep
  4. Target
  5. Decided30 Sep

Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Holy Family Convent, 18 Waterford Road, Oxton, Wirral, CH43 6UU. Wirral has handled 5,985 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 3 weeks longer than Wirral's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 39 applications across Claughton. We hold 1,325 applications in total for the CH43 postcode area.

86% of full applications at Wirral 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
CH43 6UU
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 August 2005
Consultation expiry
8 September 2005
Consultation end
8 September 2005
Neighbour consultation end
8 September 2005
Last date for comments
5 October 2005
Application expires
5 October 2005

Applicant and agent

Agent address
1 Old Hall Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, L3 9HF

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
8 September 2005
Site notice end
8 September 2005

Appeal

Appeal result
Conditionally Allowed (Expired Code)

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
14
Constraints
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Tree Preservation Order: Ref BK0129
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, 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

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© 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2007
    18 Apr

    Change of use from convent to dwelling house

    ApprovedFull Planning PermissionAPP/07/05834

Source: Wirral

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