HERE is a look at five planning stories we covered during October.
This includes applications that have been submitted and approved.
Guest house conversion
Plans have been submitted to convert a prominent guest house building.
Proposals were sent to the council to turn the Park View Hotel and Guest House into a 16-bed house of multiple occupation.
Permission is being sought by applicant Raymond Guy for a change of use of the property at 333 - 335 Prescot Road.
The prominent Victorian detached building, close to Taylor Park, was listed for auction earlier this year.
An application form described the proposals as "conversion of hotel/guest house into 16-bed HMO".
Objections to the proposals have since been lodged
Read the full story here.
Former Micklehead restaurant
Plans have been drawn up to convert a recently-closed restaurant into hotel rooms.
Micklehead Green restaurant closed its doors in July this year after its owner set out proposals to close 112 "lower-performing" venues across the country.
Whitbread, who also own Premier Inn, said it plans to sell 126 of its less profitable branded restaurants, and convert 112 restaurants into new hotel rooms.
The Micklehead Beefeater restaurant in St Helens which operated next door to Premier Inn South on Eurolink is planned to be turned into extra hotel rooms.
A planning application has been submitted for a change of use from a restaurant to hotel accommodation, with a breakfast room and external alterations.
Plans also seek to add a two-storey side extension to the hotel in addition.
Plans state the hotel extension "would provide a further 37 additional hotel bedrooms across both floors of the existing hotel building and would be designed to replicate the appearance of the existing premises".
Meanwhile, the conversion of the Micklehead restaurant site would "provide an additional 15 hotel bedrooms at ground floor level and a breakfast room".
Plans add the development "would deliver a total amount of 52 hotel bedrooms on site which would increase the total capacity to 92.
Read the full story here.
Rainford memorial for industrial accidents
A bid to create a memorial stone to honour those who have died in industrial accidents was granted permission.
Rainford Parish Council sought approval for the installation of a heritage board and memorial stone on land adjacent to 22A Old Lane.
Plans said: "We are now looking to erect a memorial stone to those who died in industrial accidents in Rainford Parish, along with a heritage board listing all of the individuals we have identified and providing basic details about them, such as their age at the time of death."
Permission for the memorial was granted.
Read the full story here.
New police station in Earlestown
A planning application has been submitted for the development of a purpose-built new police station in Earlestown.
Lodged by Merseyside Police and the region’s Police and Crime Commissioner, Emily Spurrell, the proposals aim to site the new station 50 metres northwest of the existing station on Market Street, located in what is currently a car park.
The custom-built police station will be designed for modern policing, fully accessible to the public and will be more efficient and sustainable.
Situated on Market Street, the police station will boast a public enquiry office with a waiting area, an interview room and meeting room, as well as offices, a multi-faith room, storage space and an operational car park.
If approved, the new police station will replace the current building which was opened in the 1970s and is now outdated and inefficient and requires extensive repairs and maintenance.
Read the full story here.
Rexmore House
Plans have been drawn up seeking to create another two apartments and remove shopfronts at a prominent town centre building.
Proposals for the creation of two one-bedroom apartments at Rexmore House, on Cotham Street, St Helens have been sent to council planners.
Meanwhile, a separate application for the removal of the existing shopfronts and the formation of new ground floor façade has also been submitted by the applicant.
The plans are an accompaniment to a previous application submitted last year for the creation of nine one-bedroom residential apartments at Rexmore House, which were given the green light.
The building was formerly the home of St Helens County Court.
Reda the full story here.
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