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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.
6,803 approved · 956 refused · 498 withdrawn.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 Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.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.
Public Open Space North Of 511 Wigan Road Leigh WN7 5HN
Received 6 Dec 202262 Copeland Drive Standish Wigan WN6 0XR
Received 6 Dec 2022Site Of Ashtons Tenement Farm Bickershaw Lane Abram
Received 6 Dec 202244 West Mount Orrell Wigan WN5 8LX
Received 7 Dec 202218 Brock Mill Lane Wigan WN1 2NZ
Received 7 Dec 20228 Windle Gardens Pemberton Wigan WN5 8JL
Received 7 Dec 20226 Marklands Chase Astley Tyldesley Manchester M29 7TN
Received 7 Dec 2022Holy Family Roman Catholic Church Chaddock Lane Worsley M28 1DN
Received 7 Dec 2022292 Tyldesley Road Atherton Manchester M46 9AE
Received 7 Dec 2022Hadbutt Farm Hadbutt Lane Tyldesley Manchester M29 7FJ
Received 7 Dec 2022189 Sale Lane Tyldesley Manchester M29 8PG
Received 7 Dec 2022Former Gas Depot York Road Ashton-In-Makerfield
Received 7 Dec 2022Wood Farm Back Lane Appley Bridge Wigan WN6 9LE
Received 7 Dec 2022Bryn Hall Farm Bryn Gates Lane Wigan WN2 5JY
Received 7 Dec 20228 Greenbank Avenue Billinge Wigan WN5 7BX
Received 8 Dec 20226-10 Wallgate Wigan WN1 1JE
Received 8 Dec 20227 Holton Way Winstanley Wigan
Received 8 Dec 202215 Thirlmere Avenue Tyldesley Manchester M29 7AU
Received 9 Dec 202259-59A Chapel Street Leigh WN7 2PB
Received 9 Dec 20227 Shelley Drive Orrell Wigan WN5 8HW
Received 12 Dec 2022V & V Takeaway 76 Market Street Wigan WN1 1HX
Received 12 Dec 20222 Pembroke Road Hindley Green Wigan WN2 4TG
Received 12 Dec 2022Open Land South Of 23 Surrey Avenue Leigh
Received 12 Dec 2022Sandalwood Drive Wigan
Received 5 Dec 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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