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Shaftesbury Youth Club Mendip Road, Prenton, Birkenhead, Wirral, CH42 8NU

APP/22/00071Full Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 22 July 2022

Council decision: Conditional ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Creation of a Community 3G Football Turf Pitch (FTP) (8519 sq. metres) with associated features including: > 3G football turf pitch (7420 sq. metres); > 4.5m high ball stop fencing with entrance gates to form an enclosure around FTP perimeter; > 1.2m high and 2.0m high pitch barriers with entrance gates internally within fenced FTP enclosure; > 2.6m high maintenance equipment storage container (15 sq. metres) within fenced FTP enclosure; > 15.0m high LED floodlights (6no.) around FTP perimeter; > 4.0m high LED amenity light (1no.) along pedestrian access; > Hard-standing areas for pedestrian access and circulation, portable goals storage, as well as vehicular access (1099 sq. metres). Redevelopment of existing pavilion (246 sq. metres) to provide improved welfare and changing accommodation, as well as education and supervision facilities for football activities associated with the FTP. Creation of a 1.2m maximum height grass mound (2500 sq. metres) onto the Southern playing field using recycled soils generated during the FTP construction work. Future creation of a car park (1626 sq. metres) to provide 4no. accessible car parking spaces and 78no. standard car parking spaces; connecting to an existing vehicular entrance to the Northern playing field from Borough Road.

Received
12 January 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
8
Ward
Prenton
  1. Received12 Jan
  2. Validated12 Jan
  3. Consult.23 Mar
  4. Target
  5. Decided22 Jul

Decided in 191 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Shaftesbury Youth Club Mendip Road, Prenton, Birkenhead, Wirral, CH42 8NU. Wirral has handled 5,985 applications of this type. This one was decided in 191 days, 19 weeks longer than Wirral's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Prenton. 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 8NU
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 January 2022
Consultation expiry
23 March 2022
Consultation start
25 February 2022
Consultation end
23 March 2022
Neighbour consultation start
15 February 2022
Neighbour consultation end
23 March 2022
Last date for comments
13 April 2022
Application expires
22 July 2022

Applicant and agent

Agent
S&C Slatter
Agent address
Stephen's Yard, Enborne, Newbury, RG20 0HA

Planning decision

Statutory period
191 days

Publicity

Last advertised
21 February 2022
Advertisement expiry
23 March 2022
Site notice end
23 March 2022

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-10525579
Documents
38
Constraints
6

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.

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Associated applications

  1. 2023
    9 Nov

    Discharge of conditions 3, 4, 5 and 6 of application APP/22/00071

    ApprovedDischarge of conditionsDIS/23/01746
  2. 2022
    4 Aug

    Variation of condition 8 of planning permission reference APP/22/00071

    WithdrawnVariation of conditions (s73)RVC/22/01384
  3. 2022
    12 Jan

    Creation of a Community 3G Football Turf Pitch (FTP) (8519 sq. metres) with associated features including: >…

    This applicationApprovedFullAPP/22/00071

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