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Corner House 9 Wrightington Bar Wood Lane Wrightington Wigan Lancashire WN6 9SE

2023/0750/PIPPermission in PrincipleRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 12 October 2023

Council decision: Permission in Principle RefusedPermission in Principle

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Proposal

Application for Permission in Principle - Demolition of pub and erection of 4no dwellings

Received
14 August 2023
Decision level
Permission in Principle
Ward
Rural North East Ward
  1. Received14 Aug
  2. Validated7 Sep
  3. Consult.3 Oct
  4. Target
  5. Decided12 Oct

Decided in 35 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Corner House 9 Wrightington Bar Wood Lane Wrightington Wigan Lancashire WN6 9SE. West Lancashire has handled 316 applications of this type. This one was decided in 59 days, 3 days longer than West Lancashire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 155 applications across Rural North East Ward. We hold 511 applications in total for the WN6 postcode area.

76% of outline applications at West Lancashire Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
WN6 9SE
Application type
Permission in Principle
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wrightington

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 September 2023
Consultation expiry
3 October 2023
Consultation start
12 September 2023
Consultation end
3 October 2023

Applicant and agent

Agent address
PWA Planning 2 Lockside Office Park Lockside Road Preston PR2 2YS

Additional information

Documents
27

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: West LancashirePart of the site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: conservation areas, Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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Associated applications

  1. 2023
    14 Aug

    Application for Permission in Principle - Demolition of pub and erection of 4no dwellings

    This applicationRefusedOutline2023/0750/PIP
  2. 2023
    14 Aug

    Application for Permission in Principle - Erection of 4no affordable dwellings

    RefusedPermission in PrincipleFiled alongside2023/0751/PIP

Source: West Lancashire

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