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Footpath To Side Of 125 Billinge Road Wigan

A/24/97485/TCSOTelecommunications NotificationWithdrawn
Prior approval

Withdrawn on 26 July 2024

Withdrawn

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Prior notification of installation of a 15m steel pole to support fibre cables and radio antennae together with associated cabinet housing electronic communications apparatus

Received
21 June 2024
Decision level
Withdrawn
Public comments
6
Ward
Douglas
  1. Received21 Jun
  2. Validated28 Jun
  3. Consult.22 Jul
  4. Target22 Aug
  5. Decided26 Jul

Decided in 28 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a telecoms application at Footpath To Side Of 125 Billinge Road Wigan. Wigan has handled 15 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 35 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in the Wigan Town Centre conservation area, with 20 listed buildings nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Douglas. We hold 231 applications in total for the WN1 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
WN1 1NR
Application type
Telecommunications Notification
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wigan South

Planning application dates

Date validated
28 June 2024
Consultation expiry
23 July 2024
Consultation start
1 July 2024
Consultation end
22 July 2024
Neighbour consultation start
1 July 2024
Neighbour consultation end
22 July 2024
Last date for comments
23 July 2024
Target decision date
22 August 2024

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Site notice start
9 July 2024
Site notice end
23 July 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13176977
Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Wigan Town Centre
  • 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 (21)

flood storage 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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