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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.
6,765 approved · 950 refused · 493 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 13 Jun 2001 to 12 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 14 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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Glass House Business Park Glass House Road Wigan WN3 6GL
Received 12 Oct 2022Land Adjacent 51 Belle Green Lane Ince Wigan WN2 2EP
Received 12 Oct 20229 Old Hall Drive Ashton-In-Makerfield Wigan WN4 9NA
Received 12 Oct 202226 Norwich Avenue Lowton Warrington WA3 2JD
Received 13 Oct 2022Site A North Of Worsley Mesnes Drive Site B South Of Worsley Mesnes Drive Site C South West Of Worsley Mesnes Drive Site D South Of Mesnes Avenue Site E North East Of Mesnes Avenue Worsley Mesnes Wigan
Received 13 Oct 2022Highway Verge Worsley Mesnes Drive Wigan
Received 13 Oct 202247 Pennington Lane Ince Wigan WN2 2HH
Received 14 Oct 2022Oak Tree Inn 150 Belle Green Lane Ince Wigan WN2 2ET
Received 14 Oct 2022255 Bradley Lane Standish Wigan WN6 0XF
Received 14 Oct 2022122 Leigh Road Hindley Green Wigan WN2 4XF
Received 14 Oct 2022139A Elliott Street Tyldesley Manchester M29 8FL
Received 14 Oct 202222 Andover Crescent Winstanley Wigan WN3 6HP
Received 14 Oct 20221 Cornwallis Road Wigan WN3 5XD
Received 14 Oct 202291 Market Street Atherton Manchester M46 0DA
Received 17 Oct 2022146A Stone Cross Lane South Lowton Warrington WA3 1JQ
Received 17 Oct 2022Ince Railway Station Ince Green Lane Ince
Received 14 Oct 2022Land South Of Pepper Lane Standish Wigan
Received 17 Oct 202215 Bell Street Hindley Wigan WN2 4BD
Received 18 Oct 202226 Bowland Avenue Ashton-In-Makerfield Wigan WN4 8BD
Received 18 Oct 20221 Chaucer Place Wigan WN1 2PL
Received 12 Oct 2022Pavilion Pennington Hall Park St Helens Road Leigh
Received 18 Oct 2022Twelve Apostles Roman Catholic Church Nel Pan Lane Leigh WN7 5JS
Received 18 Oct 2022598 Liverpool Road Platt Bridge Wigan WN2 3UJ
Received 17 Oct 2022Gidlow Hall Farm Dodds Farm Lane Aspull Wigan WN2 1QP
Received 19 Oct 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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