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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.
6,204 approved · 891 refused · 428 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 13 Feb 2002 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 13 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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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.
38 Barn Lane Golborne Warrington WA3 3NX
Received 28 Mar 20221 Bridge Street Golborne Warrington WA3 3BB
Received 28 Mar 202267 St James Road Orrell Wigan WN5 8SX
Received 28 Mar 202227 Moss Road Billinge Wigan WN5 7BU
Received 22 Mar 202218 Grovewood Drive Appley Bridge Wigan WN6 9JF
Received 22 Mar 2022AB World Foods Kiribati Way Leigh WN7 5RS
Received 29 Mar 20221 Bridge Street Golborne Warrington WA3 3BB
Received 29 Mar 2022Land At Frog Lane And Field Street Wigan
Received 29 Mar 2022386 Newton Road Lowton Warrington WA3 1JD
Received 29 Mar 2022Robin Hood Inn St Helens Road Leigh WN7 3PA
Received 30 Mar 2022144 Stour Road Tyldesley Manchester M29 7PX
Received 30 Mar 2022Westleigh St Pauls Church Of England Primary School School Street Leigh WN7 5JN
Received 30 Mar 202230 Tarnside Road Orrell Wigan WN5 8RN
Received 30 Mar 202217 White Street Pemberton Wigan WN5 8JW
Received 31 Mar 202222 Sydney Avenue Leigh WN7 3LU
Received 28 Mar 2022Land Adjacent To Yew Tree Farm Carr Lane Landside Leigh WN7 3RY
Received 31 Mar 2022146 Elliott Street Tyldesley Manchester M29 8FJ
Received 31 Mar 2022206 Elliott Street Tyldesley Manchester M29 8DS
Received 31 Mar 202228 Bentham Road Standish Wigan WN6 0ND
Received 31 Mar 202213 Entwistle Grove Leigh WN7 3DQ
Received 29 Mar 202285 Oxford Street Leigh WN7 1NG
Received 29 Mar 2022Land At Junction 25 Of The M6 Motorway, Wigan, Which Is Bounded By The M6 Slip Road And A49 Warrington Road Junction To The East, Agricultural Land To The North And The M6 Motorway To The West Wigan
Received 1 Apr 20228 Sevenoaks Leigh WN7 1JQ
Received 1 Apr 202245 Lower Green Lane Astley Tyldesley Manchester M29 7JF
Received 24 Mar 2022Records 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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