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Unilever Port Sunlight Wood Street, Birkenhead, Wirral, CH62 4UY

LDP/24/00412Lawful Development Certificate ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved

Council decision: Lawful Use

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

Proposal

New modular building constructed on existing unused hardstanding area. Building to provide approximately 110m2 internal space. building height to be 3.4m above ground level. Building use is to be changing rooms, toilets and showers for male, female and gender neutral operatives.

Received
27 March 2024
Ward
Bromborough
  1. Received27 Mar
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.7 May
  4. Target
  5. Decided

About this application

This is an outline application at Unilever Port Sunlight Wood Street, Birkenhead, Wirral, CH62 4UY. Wirral has handled 961 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 27 March 2024 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in the Port Sunlight conservation area, with 12 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 76 applications across Bromborough. We hold 1,310 applications in total for the CH62 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
CH62 4UY
Application type
Lawful Development Certificate Proposed

Planning application dates

Validated
27 March 2024
Consultation expiry
7 May 2024
Consultation end
7 May 2024

Planning decision

Decision
Lawful Use

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Conservation area: Port Sunlight Conservation Area
  • Listed building: Grade II: 9-15, Wood StreetOn or next to this site · +1 more
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, 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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