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154 Park Road North, Birkenhead, Wirral, CH41 8AB

Refused Wirral LDP/22/01841 Lawful Development Certificate Proposed

Works: Extension Loft or dormer Demolition

Refused. Only the applicant can appeal, within the statutory time limit, and a revised scheme can be submitted instead.

Proposal

The project consists of of internal renovations to convert a property into an HMO consisting of five bedrooms, including the construction of new stud walls, the creation of new doorways, the creation of a new staircase up to the new loft conversion, a dormer extension to the loft, new rooflights to the front of the property, and the demolition of existing outbuildings to create a new rear extension within the party wall.

As published by the council, reference LDP/22/01841

Application record

Reference
LDP/22/01841
Type
Lawful Development Certificate Proposed
Status
Decision Issued
Decision
Refused As published: Not Lawful Use
Received
21 Oct 2022
Validated
21 Oct 2022
Decided
15 Dec 2022
Ward
Bidston and St James
Decision by
Delegated
Postcode
CH41 8AB

Site history

Applications at this address on the Wirral register

This site has had 3 applications since 2022: 2 approved, 1 refused.

  • LDP/23/00140 Granted

    154 Park Road North, Birkenhead, Wirral, CH41 8AB

    Change of use of house (Class C3) to house in multiple occupation (not more than 6 residents, Class C4); construction of dormer extension and single storey extension and installation of replacement gate to rear and installation of roof lights to front

    Decided 5 May 2023 Lawful development
  • RESX/22/02147 Granted

    154 Park Road North, Birkenhead, Wirral, CH41 8AB

    Erection of a single storey rear extension which would extend 4.59m beyond the rear wall of the original house for which the maximum height would be 3.40m and the eaves height would be 2.65m.

    Decided 25 Jan 2023 Prior approval

Timeline

Dates from the published record

  1. 21 Oct 2022

    Received by Wirral

  2. 15 Dec 2022

    Decision issued: Not Lawful Use

  3. 17 Aug 2026

    Added to PlanIndex

Documents

Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report

13 documents on file for this application

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What this refusal means

Wirral refused this application for the reasons on the decision notice; only the applicant can appeal, and refused schemes often return in revised form. More in our guide to what happens after a planning decision.

About lawful development applications

A lawful development certificate is a legal determination that existing or proposed works do not need planning permission; the merits of the scheme are not considered. More in our guide to planning application types.

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