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Swimming Baths, Calday Grammar Sports Ground Gourleys Lane, Newton, Wirral, CH48 8AS

APP/23/00369Full Planning PermissionApproved
Full

Approved on 10 July 2023

Council decision: Conditional ApprovalDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Demolition of existing canoe store and erection of a single storey training room. Demolition of existing canopy and erection of a new covered accessway. Erection of a screen to plant areas and new level access visitor access to the side of the building.

Received
9 March 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
West Kirby and Thurstaston
  1. Received9 Mar
  2. Validated9 Mar
  3. Consult.26 Apr
  4. Target
  5. Decided10 Jul

Decided in 123 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Swimming Baths, Calday Grammar Sports Ground Gourleys Lane, Newton, Wirral, CH48 8AS. Wirral has handled 5,985 applications of this type. This one was decided in 123 days, 10 weeks longer than Wirral's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 94 applications across West Kirby and Thurstaston. We hold 546 applications in total for the CH48 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
CH48 8AS
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
9 March 2023
Consultation expiry
26 April 2023
Consultation end
26 April 2023
Application expires
10 July 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
123 days

Additional information

Documents
13

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 WR0253
  • 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

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.

Associated applications

  1. 2023
    6 Nov

    Variation of Condition 2 and 3 of planning permission APP/23/00369

    ApprovedVariation of conditions (s73)RVC/23/01703
  2. 2023
    9 Mar

    Demolition of existing canoe store and erection of a single storey training room. Demolition of existing…

    This applicationApprovedFullAPP/23/00369

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