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Greengate Works Sherdley Road St Helens WA9 5DZ

Granted St. Helens P/2023/0236/CLP Certificate of Lawfulness: Proposed

Permission granted. Work must normally begin within three years of the decision or the permission lapses.

Proposal

Certificate of lawfulness for proposed erection of an industrial link building to connect 2no on-site buildings.

As published by the council, reference P/2023/0236/CLP

Application record

Reference
P/2023/0236/CLP
Type
Certificate of Lawfulness: Proposed
Status
Decided
Decision
Grant
Received
6 Apr 2023
Validated
6 Apr 2023
Decided
31 May 2023
Ward
Thatto Heath Ward
Decision by
Delegated Decision
Postcode
WA9 5DZ

Site history

Applications at this address on the St. Helens register

This site has had 5 applications since 2016: 4 approved, 0 refused.

  • EIA/2023/0004/SCREEN Decided

    Greengate Works Sherdley Road St Helens WA9 5DZ

    EIA Screening opinion

    Decided 11 Aug 2023 Outline
  • P/2022/0262/CLE Granted

    Greengate Works Sherdley Road St Helens WA9 5DZ

    Certificate of lawfulness to confirm existing implementation of approval P/2018/0675/WEIA for demolition of existing security and administration buildings and erection of an energy recovery facility to produce 30mw of electricity for distribution to Pilkington Greengate and Watson Street works and to National Grid, from the importation of 300,000 tonnes per annum of refuse derived fuel and residual municipal, commercial and industrial waste, also the erection of new security and substation buildings.

    Decided 27 May 2022 Lawful development
  • C/2019/0053/CON Granted

    Greengate Works Sherdley Road St Helens WA9 5DZ

    Discharge of condition 3,4,7,9,10 and 15 on approval P/2018/0675/WEIA.

    Decided 8 Dec 2020 Conditions
  • P/2016/0804/FUL Granted

    Greengate Works Sherdley Road St Helens WA9 5DZ

    Demolition of existing security and administration buildings. Erection of energy recovery facility to produce 15MW of electricity for distribution to Pilkington Greengate and Watson Street works and the National Grid from importation of 150 000 tonnes per annum of refuse derived fuel. Also erection of new administration, security and electrical substation buildings and multi storey car park.

    Decided 31 Mar 2017 Full applications

Timeline

Dates from the published record

  1. 6 Apr 2023

    Received by St. Helens

  2. 31 May 2023

    Decision issued: Grant

  3. 24 Aug 2026

    Added to PlanIndex

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Agent on file, registered in Norwich

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14 documents on file for this application

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What this grant of permission means

St. Helens granted permission on 31 May 2023, subject to any conditions on the decision notice. Work must normally begin within three years or the permission lapses. More in our guide to what happens after a planning decision.

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