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967 Atherton Road Hindley Green Wigan WN2 4TA

A/23/96147/CUChange of UseRefused
Discharge / amendments

Refused on 25 March 2024

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Change of use from existing 6 bed, 6 person HMO (Use Class C4), to a 6 bed, 8 person HMO (Sui Generis Use)

Received
19 September 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
8
Ward
Hindley Green
  1. Received19 Sep
  2. Validated19 Sep
  3. Consult.29 Nov
  4. Target29 Mar
  5. Decided25 Mar

Decided in 188 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 967 Atherton Road Hindley Green Wigan WN2 4TA. Wigan has handled 80 applications of this type. This one was decided in 188 days, 18 weeks longer than Wigan's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 12 applications across Hindley Green. We hold 224 applications in total for the WN2 postcode area.

80% of amendment applications at Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 9 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
WN2 4TA
Application type
Change of Use
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Hindley And Abram Township

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 September 2023
Consultation expiry
29 November 2023
Consultation start
8 November 2023
Consultation end
29 November 2023
Neighbour consultation start
10 October 2023
Neighbour consultation end
3 November 2023
Last date for comments
29 November 2023
Target decision date
29 March 2024
Decision issued
28 March 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Mark Gordon 12 Westbury Close Bury BL8 2LW

Planning decision

Statutory period
192 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12466996
Documents
11

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

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

Also checked, none recorded (22)

flood storage areas, conservation 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: Wigan

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