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29 Rigley Potts Park Hindley Green Wigan WN2 4UN

A/24/96709/LUCPLawful Use Certificate ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 19 March 2024

Council decision: Granted LUC Proposed Use or DevelopmentDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of lawful development for change of use from a dwellinghouse (Class C3) to a care home for up to 1 child (Class C2)

Received
25 January 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Hindley Green
  1. Received25 Jan
  2. Validated25 Jan
  3. Consult.6 Mar
  4. Target21 Mar
  5. Decided19 Mar

Decided in 54 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 29 Rigley Potts Park Hindley Green Wigan WN2 4UN. Wigan has handled 133 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 9 days quicker than Wigan's typical decision time. There has been 1 other application 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.

73% of outline 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 4UN
Application type
Lawful Use Certificate Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hindley And Abram Township

Planning application dates

Date validated
25 January 2024
Consultation expiry
6 March 2024
Consultation start
14 February 2024
Consultation end
6 March 2024
Last date for comments
6 March 2024
Target decision date
21 March 2024
Decision issued
20 March 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr James Stannard 9 Ash Grove Chinley SK23 6BQ

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12757105
Comments
0
Documents
12

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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