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Leigh Spinners Company Leigh Spinners Mill Park Lane Leigh WN7 2LB

A/24/098146/MAJORMajor applicationApproved
Full

Approved on 30 May 2025

Council decision: Approved with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)18 conditions

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of existing warehouse extension (Use Class B8) to 2 units in (Use Class B2) general industrial use, elevational changes to include 2 new roller shutter doors, new window and entrance door apertures, demolition of the link corridor, alterations to Hall House Lane to create new access and egress, parking areas, hard and soft landscaping

Received
8 November 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
8
Ward
Leigh South
  1. Received8 Nov
  2. Validated24 Mar
  3. Consult.25 Apr
  4. Target23 Jun
  5. Decided30 May

Decided in 67 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a full planning application for demolition at Leigh Spinners Company Leigh Spinners Mill Park Lane Leigh WN7 2LB. Wigan has handled 392 applications of this type. This one was decided in 203 days, 20 weeks longer than Wigan's typical decision time. The site is in the Bridgewater Canal, Leigh conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 33 applications across Leigh South. We hold 221 applications in total for the WN7 postcode area.

85% of full 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
WN7 2LB
Application type
Major application
Scale / size
Large
Parish
Leigh Township

Planning application dates

Date validated
24 March 2025
Consultation expiry
2 May 2025
Consultation start
4 April 2025
Consultation end
25 April 2025
Neighbour consultation start
27 March 2025
Neighbour consultation end
20 April 2025
Last date for comments
2 May 2025
Target decision date
23 June 2025
Permission expires
30 May 2028

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Paul Baines Renaissance Studio 1 Derby Street Leigh WN7 4PF

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
3 April 2025
Advertisement expiry
17 April 2025
Site notice start
11 April 2025
Site notice end
2 May 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13504123
Documents
35
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (19)

flood storage areas, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, 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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© 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.

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