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DC/2025/01351 - Variation of condition Approved

Proposal

Removal of conditions 2 (distributor road), 4 (local shopping provision) and 5 (business park access) and variation of conditions 6 (spine road progress report) and 9 (scheme of highway works) attached to planning application approved 26/7/2024 to allow additional residential completions within the southern portion of the wider East of Maghull Local Plan allocation Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
around 22 Aug 2025
✓
Approved
11 Jun 2026

Approved on 11 Jun 2026 · Committee Decision · Last checked 16 Oct 2026

Planning committee

Decided by Sefton Planning Committee on 10 Jun 2026.

Approved

As officers recommended.

  • Officers advised approval because housing benefits, including affordable homes, outweighed highway and living-condition impacts that conditions could mitigate.
  • Residents and Maghull Town Council raised concerns about highway safety, infrastructure, construction traffic and the unfinished spine road.
  • The committee approved the recommendation and granted the application subject to conditions and the stated reasons.
Read how the committee decided The proposed changes, site history, officers’ assessment, objections, speakers, committee decision and conditions.

Source: Plota analysis of Sefton's committee minutes of 10 Jun 2026.

Documents 22

All documents on the council site ↗

Site constraints 2

Flood zone 2, rivers and sea
Medium chance: between a 1 in 100 and 1 in 1,000 annual chance from rivers, or 1 in 200 to 1 in 1,000 from the sea. Any development here needs a flood risk assessment. Defences are not counted.
The Environment Agency flood map for planning. Homes in zone 3 must also pass the sequential test. Surface water flooding is a separate map.
Flood map ↗
Agricultural land, grade 3a, surveyed
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: Natural England's post-1988 ALC field survey (Wolverhampton). Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s) had this area as grade 1; the survey is the definitive reading.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Survey report ↗
Not affected
Not green belt · No listed building at the site · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 16 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council
Sefton
Application type
Variation of condition
Received
around 22 Aug 2025
Validated
22 Aug 2025
Ward
Sudell Ward
Parish
Maghull Town Council
Case officer
Show
Target decision
12 Dec 2025
Decision
Approve with Conditions
Decision date
11 Jun 2026
Decision level
Committee Decision
Applicant
Show
Agent
Mosaic Town Planning

Consultation & key dates

Comments by
25 Feb 2026
Statutory expiry
12 Dec 2025
Env. assessment
No
Sefton
Planning Authority Score
6.4/10
Average
#84 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Sefton ranks #119 out of 296 councils for householder decision speed. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (96%) than the national average (90%).

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Sefton decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
93%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #66 of 296
96%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #59 of 296
71%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #119 of 296
39%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #141 of 296
87%
Minor dwellings approved
82 decided (1-9 homes)
87%
Major dwellings approved
15 decided (10+ homes)
78%
Change of use approved
76 decided
1,029
Total decisions
75 refused in the year to March 2026