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Former Cole Street Primary School, COLE STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH43 4US

DIS/21/02355Discharge of ConditionsAwaiting decision
Discharge / amendments
Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change the use of the retained former Cole Street School to C3 residential, alter and extend the retained main building to form 36 no. (reduced to 33 per NMA consent NMA/21/01981) self contained apartments, erect a three-storey building comprising 11 no.self contained apartments, together with associated works, landscaping and boundary treatments.

Received
10 December 2021
Ward
Claughton
  1. Received10 Dec
  2. Validated10 Dec
  3. Consult.4 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided

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About this application

This is an application to discharge conditions at Former Cole Street Primary School, COLE STREET, BIRKENHEAD, CH43 4US. Wirral has handled 479 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 10 December 2021 and is still awaiting a decision. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 39 applications across Claughton. We hold 1,326 applications in total for the CH43 postcode area.

99% of conditions 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 4US
Application type
Discharge of Conditions
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
10 December 2021
Last date for comments
4 February 2022
Application expires
4 February 2022

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-10458409
Comments
0
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.

  • 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2021
    10 Dec

    Change the use of the retained former Cole Street School to C3 residential, alter and extend the retained…

    This applicationPendingDischarge of conditionsDIS/21/02355
  2. 2021
    8 Oct

    Non-Material Amendment to planning permission APP/15/00701

    ApprovedNon-material amendmentPart ofNMA/21/01981

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