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Aldi Stores Limited, Woodchurch Road, Birkenhead, Wirral, Ch42 8pg

APP/18/01200Full Planning PermissionRefused
Full

Refused on 15 May 2019

Council decision: RefuseDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Proposed changes to access and car park off Duck Pond Lane, including: (1) creating a new single vehicular entry/exit point for store customers,further north in Lane;(2) reconfiguring car park spaces;(3) erection of south boundary fencing;(4) new pedestrian guard and knee rails;(5) changing existing access to serve rear of Woodchurch Road properties.

Received
14 September 2018
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
9
Ward
Oxton
  1. Received14 Sep
  2. Validated17 Oct
  3. Consult.15 Nov
  4. Target
  5. Decided15 May

Decided in 210 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Aldi Stores Limited, Woodchurch Road, Birkenhead, Wirral, Ch42 8pg,. Wirral has handled 5,985 applications of this type. This one was decided in 243 days, 27 weeks longer than Wirral's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 37 applications across Oxton. We hold 297 applications in total for the CH42 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
CH42 8PG
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 October 2018
Consultation expiry
15 November 2018
Consultation start
18 October 2018
Consultation end
15 November 2018
Neighbour consultation start
18 October 2018
Neighbour consultation end
15 November 2018
Last date for comments
12 December 2018
Application expires
12 December 2018

Applicant and agent

Agent
JLL
Agent address
JLL, One Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, M1 1RG

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
15 November 2018
Site notice end
15 November 2018

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-07273503
Documents
19
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (24)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, 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

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.

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