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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for St Helens Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
0 approved · 0 refused · 0 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 15 Jun 2023 to 24 Sept 2026. Most recent record check: 28 Sept 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
12 Windle Grove Windle St Helens WA10 6HW
Received 9 Nov 2025Land At Watery Lane St Helens
Received 10 Nov 2025Land South Of Florida Farm Haydock St Helens
Received 10 Nov 2025312 Prescot Road St Helens Merseyside WA10 3AD
Received 10 Nov 20256 Ashton Road Newton Le Willows St Helens WA12 0AB
Received 11 Nov 20254 - 5 Reginald Road Industrial Park Brindley Road Bold St Helens WA9 4HY
Received 11 Nov 2025Laburnum House Crank Hill Crank St Helens WA11 7SF
Received 11 Nov 2025Land To The North Of Greenway Court South John Street St Helens
Received 11 Nov 202538 Knowsley Road St Helens WA10 4PW
Received 12 Nov 2025Land Site Of Former Ibstock Brick Roughdales Ltd Chester Lane Clock Face St Helens St Helens
Received 12 Nov 20259 Nicholl Road Eccleston St Helens WA10 5LN
Received 12 Nov 202513 Orith Avenue Eccleston St Helens WA10 5BZ
Received 12 Nov 20254 Deltic Close Newton Le Willows St Helens WA12 8TG
Received 13 Nov 2025Earlestown Market Square Market Street Newton Le Willows St Helens St Helens
Received 12 Nov 202513 Knowsley Road Rainhill St Helens L35 0PA
Received 13 Nov 202529 Briars Green St Helens WA10 2DH
Received 13 Nov 202552 View Road Rainhill St Helens L35 0LS
Received 13 Nov 2025Land At Leach Lane Sutton Leach St Helens
Received 13 Nov 202519 Orchid Way Bold St Helens WA9 4ZN
Received 14 Nov 20254 Eaton Road Dentons Green St Helens WA10 6JL
Received 14 Nov 202548 Hard Lane Dentons Green St Helens WA10 6LA
Received 15 Nov 20252 Maggots Nook Road Rainford St Helens WA11 8PJ
Received 17 Nov 202528 St Marys Avenue Billinge St Helens WN5 7QL
Received 17 Nov 2025Suregrow Garden Centre Collins Industrial Estate Merton Bank Road St Helens WA9 1HY
Received 17 Nov 2025Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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Understand planning approval rates with an interactive calculator, worked examples and comparison table. Check sample sizes, outcomes and coverage before comparing.
These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for St Helens Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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