Planning application
Whelmar House Southway Skelmersdale Lancashire
Works: New dwelling Major scheme
Read from the description, not a valuation. How we read the register
Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.
Proposal
Part conversion of building: mixed use development: conversion of third, fourth and fifth floors of building from offices to 27 apartments
As published by the council, reference 2026/0048/FUL
Application record
- Reference
- 2026/0048/FUL
- Type
- Full Planning Application
- Status
- Registered
- Received
- 23 Jan 2026
- Validated
- 28 Jan 2026
- Ward
- Tanhouse & Skelmersdale Town Centre Ward
- Decision by
- Committee
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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23 Jan 2026
Received by Sefton
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28 Jan 2026
Validated
Checked as complete and ready for consideration.
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21 Jul 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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Decision
Awaiting decision
Decision expected by 25 March 2026, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.
Sefton took a median of 62 days over the applications it decided in the last year.
Who's behind it
Company information only, from the register and Companies House
Mason and Marlowe Ltd Agent, registered in Manchester
Active · incorporated 2018 · Manchester
51 applications on PlanIndex · across 21 councils · 74% granted
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See their track recordDocuments
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
29 documents on file for this application
- Meas response
- Response dated 4.6.26
- Transport statement
- Proposed site plan
- Preliminary bat roost assessment
- Highways response
- Drainage
- Llfa
- Meas response
- Site notice
- Consultation/neighbours notified
- Site location plan
- Proposed site plan
- Proposed west & east elevations
- Existing first floor plan
- Existing fourth & fifth floor plan
- Existing front & rear elevations
- Existing ground floor plan
- Existing second & third floor plan
- Existing west & east elevations
- Proposed first floor plan
- Proposed fourth & fifth floor plan
- Proposed front & rear elevations
- Proposed ground floor plan
- Proposed second & third floor plan
- Existing site & location plan
- Drainage statement
- Application form - without personal data
- Flood map
Trade members open them from here.
Open the documentsWhat happens while it is decided
This application is with Sefton for determination, against a statutory target of eight weeks. Over the last year Sefton decided full applications in a median of 77 days. More in our guide to how long planning decisions take.
About full applications
A full application seeks permission for a complete, detailed proposal in one go, with siting, design, access and landscaping all fixed at this stage. More in our guide to planning application types.
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