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Wirral Press, 117 Brighton Street, Egremont, Wallasey, Wirral, CH44 8DT

RETX/25/00167Prior Approval Retail to residential PDApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved

Council decision: Prior Approval Given

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

Proposal

Application under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class G of the GPDO to convert the property into mixed use with an office on the ground floor and one residential unit on the first-floor

Received
1 February 2025
Ward
Seacombe
  1. Received1 Feb
  2. Validated
  3. Consult.27 Feb
  4. Target
  5. Decided

About this application

This is an outline application at Wirral Press, 117 Brighton Street, Egremont, Wallasey, Wirral, CH44 8DT. Wirral has handled 961 applications of this type. It has been with the council since 1 February 2025 and is still awaiting a decision. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 25 applications across Seacombe. We hold 414 applications in total for the CH44 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
CH44 8DT
Application type
Prior Approval Retail to residential PD

Planning application dates

Validated
1 February 2025
Consultation expiry
27 February 2025
Consultation end
27 February 2025

Planning decision

Decision
Prior Approval Given

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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