Land Adjacent To The Poplars Tunley Lane Wrightington Wigan Lancashire WN6 9RG
Approved on 17 March 2026
Council decision: Permission in Principle GrantedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Application for Permission in principle - 2no. detached dwellings on former equestrian land.
- Received
- 5 February 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Rural North East Ward
- ReceivedReceived5 Feb
- ValidatedValidated5 Feb
- Consult.Consultation3 Mar
- TargetTarget Date
- DecidedDecided17 Mar
Decided in 40 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is an outline application at Land Adjacent To The Poplars Tunley Lane Wrightington Wigan Lancashire WN6 9RG. West Lancashire has handled 316 applications of this type. This one was decided in 40 days, 2 weeks quicker than West Lancashire's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded 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 9RG
- Application type
- Permission in Principle
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Wrightington
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 5 February 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 5 March 2026
- Consultation start
- 10 February 2026
- Consultation end
- 3 March 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 10 February 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 5 March 2026
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Architect profile
- PETER DICKINSON ARCHITECTS LIMITED
- Agent address
- 169 Appley Lane North Appley Bridge Wigan WN6 9DX
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Kerry Webster
Additional information
- Documents
- 15
Site constraints
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.
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Planning history at this site
2 other applications at this property, newest first.
Source: West Lancashire
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