Maintenance Depot Pennington Flash Nature Reserve St Helens Road Leigh
Approved on 17 September 2024
Council decision: Approved with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
To site a steel cycle storage container on existing stone area
- Received
- 20 May 2024
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Public comments
- 1
- Ward
- Lowton East
- ReceivedReceived20 May
- ValidatedValidated11 Jun
- Consult.Consultation8 Jul
- TargetTarget Date4 Sep
- DecidedDecided17 Sep
Decided in 98 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is a planning application at Maintenance Depot Pennington Flash Nature Reserve St Helens Road Leigh. Wigan has handled 14 applications of this type. This one was decided in 120 days, 8 weeks longer than Wigan's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 43 applications across Lowton East. We hold 221 applications in total for the WN7 postcode area.
86% of all 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 4LA
- Application type
- Local Authority
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Leigh Township
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 11 June 2024
- Consultation expiry
- 6 August 2024
- Consultation start
- 17 June 2024
- Consultation end
- 8 July 2024
- Last date for comments
- 6 August 2024
- Target decision date
- 4 September 2024
- Permission expires
- 17 September 2027
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Stephen Benyon Wigan Life Centre South WN1 1NJ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 85 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 16 July 2024
- Site notice end
- 6 August 2024
Additional information
- Documents
- 8
- Constraints
- 1
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- 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.
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Source: Wigan
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