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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 Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
6,026 approved · 871 refused · 411 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 13 Feb 2002 to 7 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 12 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council — Article 4 Direction Area · checked 14 Sept 2026 · Open Government Licence v3.0. Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council
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 Ivy House Road Lowton WA3 2EX
Received 9 Sept 202170 Tan House Drive Winstanley WN3 6JP
Received 9 Sept 2021Unit 10 Yew Tree Way Stone Cross Park Golborne Warrington WA3 3JE
Received 9 Sept 202127 Dixon Avenue Shevington WN6 8HF
Received 9 Sept 2021North Leigh Park Nel Pan Lane Leigh
Received 10 Sept 202128 Pemberton Road Winstanley WN3 6DA
Received 10 Sept 20216 Belgrave Close Leigh WN7 3QR
Received 10 Sept 202115 Burley Crescent Winstanley WN3 6LG
Received 20 Sept 2021229 - 231 Church Lane Lowton WA3 2RZ
Received 13 Sept 2021Twelve Apostles Roman Catholic Church And Presbytery Nel Pan Lane Leigh WN7 5JS
Received 11 Sept 202123 Coleridge Road Billinge WN5 7EB
Received 13 Sept 2021Land North Of Glass House Road Glass House Business Park Wigan WN3 6GL
Received 13 Sept 202166 Gerard Street Ashton-In-Makerfield WN4 9AE
Received 13 Sept 202179 Gloucester Crescent Hindley WN2 4DQ
Received 14 Sept 2021Rick Bestwick (North West) Ltd Unit 7 Yew Tree Way Stone Cross Park Golborne Warrington WA3 3JD
Received 10 Sept 202132 Landside Leigh WN7 3JT
Received 10 Sept 2021Site Of Former Formby Hall Alder Street Atherton Manchester M46 9EY
Received 13 Sept 202145 Park Road Golborne WA3 3PT
Received 14 Sept 2021Laithwaite Park Scot Lane Wigan
Received 13 Sept 2021William Foster Playing Fields Ince Green Lane Ince
Received 13 Sept 202145 Castle Street Tyldesley M29 8FP
Received 10 Sept 202136 Wood Sorrel Way Lowton WA3 2GX
Received 14 Sept 202169 Ravenswood Avenue Winstanley WN3 6EU
Received 3 Sept 20211 Blacksmiths Row Ince Wigan WN2 2LE
Received 14 Sept 2021Records 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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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Wigan Metropolitan Borough 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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