Planning application
Land Site Of Former Hays Chemical Works Lancots Lane St Helens
Relates to P/2024/0592/FUL
Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.
Proposal
Discharge of Conditions 3 (facing materials), 4 (hard surfacing), 5 (highways), 6 (highways entrance point), 7 (CPP/ CEMP), 12 (Ventilation and MHVR), 17 (archaeology), 18 (drainage plans), 19 (drainage management plan), 20 (energy proposals), 21 (employment plan), 22 (landscaping plan), 23 (landscaping management plan), 25 (affordable housing) and 27 (RAMs) on approval P/2024/0592/FUL.
As published by the council, reference C/2025/0108/CON
Application record
- Reference
- C/2025/0108/CON
- Type
- Discharge of Conditions
- Status
- Awaiting decision
- Received
- 27 Aug 2025
- Validated
- 2 Oct 2025
- Ward
- Sutton North West Ward
Site history
Applications at this address on the St. Helens register
This site has had 3 applications since 2024: 1 approved, 0 refused.
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C/2026/0078/CON Awaiting decision
Land Site Of Former Hays Chemical Works Lancots Lane St Helens
Discharge of condition 8 (Site investigation and remediation strategy) on approval P/2024/0592/FUL.
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P/2024/0592/FUL Granted
Land Site Of Former Hays Chemical Works Lancots Lane St Helens
Erection of 32no. dwellings (Class C3), 5,134 sqm extension to existing warehouse (B8) and construction of new vehicle access points, associated landscaping and infrastructure works.
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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27 Aug 2025
Received by St. Helens
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2 Oct 2025
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 27 November 2025, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.
St. Helens took a median of 77 days over the applications it decided in the last year.
Related applications
Cases linked to this one on the register
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P/2024/0592/FUL Granted
Land Site Of Former Hays Chemical Works Lancots Lane St Helens
Erection of 32no. dwellings (Class C3), 5,134 sqm extension to existing warehouse (B8) and construction of new vehicle access points, associated landscaping and infrastructure works.
Documents
Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
110 documents on file for this application
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Open the documentsWhat happens while it is decided
This application is with St. Helens for determination, against a statutory target of eight weeks. Over the last year St. Helens decided condition discharge and variation applications in a median of 149 days. More in our guide to how long planning decisions take.
About condition discharge and variation applications
This application deals with conditions on an existing permission, supplying the details a condition requires or asking to vary or remove one, without reopening the permission itself. More in our guide to planning application types.
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