Not for Bootle, but to Durham. My partner is a British Citizen (due to her mother being born here) but she was born and lives in Sicily and is applying for her first British Passport. It took just under 3 weeks between the documents being signed for and them being ‘received’. The current details are:
Application being processed 11:23am on 13 April 2022
Documents received 9:13am on 12 April 2022