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9 Osborne Road, Birkenhead, Prenton, Wirral, CH43 4XT

LDP/22/01893Lawful Development Certificate ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 10 January 2023

Council decision: Lawful UseDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

Alterations to the fenestration including the insertion of a door to the ground floor side elevation, bricking up of the existing ground floor rear door aperture, addition of a mullion to the first-floor rear window and new windows to front, side and rear elevations. The materials used for the alterations to the fenestration will be of a similar appearance as those of the existing dwellinghouse. The change of use of a dwelling house (Use Class C3) to a house in multiple occupation (Use Class C4).

Received
1 November 2022
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Claughton
  1. Received1 Nov
  2. Validated1 Nov
  3. Consult.2 Jan
  4. Target
  5. Decided10 Jan

Decided in 70 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 9 Osborne Road, Birkenhead, Prenton, Wirral, CH43 4XT. Wirral has handled 961 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 2 weeks longer than Wirral's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application 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.

77% of outline 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 4XT
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate Proposed
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 November 2022
Consultation expiry
2 January 2023
Consultation end
2 January 2023
Application expires
12 January 2023

Planning decision

Statutory period
72 days

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.

Source: Wirral

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