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8 Carr House Lane Wrightington Wigan Lancashire WN6 9SH

2025/0614/LDCLawful Development Cert. (existing)Approved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 8 October 2025

Council decision: Cert of Lawfulness (EXISTING) GrantedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness - This lawful existing use development seeks to establish the lawful use of the land for a primary land uses of Sui Generis

Received
14 July 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Rural North East Ward
Agent
PWA Planning
  1. Received14 Jul
  2. Validated16 Jul
  3. Consult.9 Aug
  4. Target
  5. Decided8 Oct

Decided in 84 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 8 Carr House Lane Wrightington Wigan Lancashire WN6 9SH. West Lancashire has handled 149 applications of this type. This one was decided in 86 days, 4 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 511 applications in total for the WN6 postcode area.

69% of amendment 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 9SH
Application type
Lawful Development Cert. (existing)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wrightington

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 July 2025
Consultation expiry
9 August 2025
Neighbour consultation start
17 July 2025
Neighbour consultation end
9 August 2025

Applicant and agent

Applicant
Private applicant
Agent
PWA Planning
Agent address
2 Lockside Office Park Lockside Road Preston PR2 2YS United Kingdom

Planning decision

Case officer
Kerry Webster

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14169744
Documents
9

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: West Lancashire
  • 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

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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