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Merseyrail, Meols Railway Station Birkenhead Road, Meols, Wirral, CH47 9RA

APP/19/01828Full Planning PermissionRefused
Full

Refused on 12 May 2020

Council decision: RefusePlanning committee

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

Proposal

Retention of 1.8m high, 112m long standard galvanised palisade fence.

Received
6 December 2019
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
7
Ward
Hoylake and Meols
Agent
Owen Ellis Architects
  1. Received6 Dec
  2. Validated6 Dec
  3. Consult.14 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided12 May

Decided in 158 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Merseyrail, Meols Railway Station Birkenhead Road, Meols, Wirral, CH47 9RA. Wirral has handled 5,985 applications of this type. This one was decided in 158 days, 15 weeks longer than Wirral's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 71 applications across Hoylake and Meols. We hold 637 applications in total for the CH47 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
CH47 9RA
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 December 2019
Consultation expiry
14 January 2020
Consultation start
17 December 2019
Consultation end
14 January 2020
Neighbour consultation start
17 December 2019
Neighbour consultation end
14 January 2020
Last date for comments
31 January 2020
Committee meeting
12 May 2020
Decision issued
13 May 2020
Application expires
31 January 2020

Applicant and agent

Agent
Owen Ellis Architects
Agent address
Owen Ellis Architects, Honeycomb, Edmund Street, Liverpool, L3 9NG

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Advertisement expiry
14 January 2020
Site notice start
20 December 2019
Site notice end
14 January 2020

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-08342342
Documents
9
Constraints
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • 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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