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Wayfarer Restaurant 1 - 5 Alder Lane Parbold Wigan Lancashire WN8 7NL

2025/0587/FULApproved

Approved on 24 April 2026

Council decision: Planning Permission Granted

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Retrospective change of use of agricultural land to form car park for anglers from the Prince Albert Angling Society, who have fishing rights on the adjacent River Douglas

Received
3 July 2025
Ward
Rural North East Ward
  1. Received3 Jul
  2. Validated7 Jul
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided24 Apr

Decided in 291 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at Wayfarer Restaurant 1 - 5 Alder Lane Parbold Wigan Lancashire WN8 7NL. West Lancashire has handled 2,971 applications of this type. This one was decided in 291 days, 34 weeks longer than West Lancashire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 155 applications across Rural North East Ward. We hold 347 applications in total for the WN8 postcode area.

Application details

Postcode
WN8 7NL
Parish
Parbold

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 July 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer
Kerry Webster

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Flood zone 2: Medium 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 (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© 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.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: West Lancashire

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