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Shaws Fold Farm Bolton Road Aspull Wigan WN2 1PR

A/24/97584/HAAPrior Approval for Addition StoreysRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 4 September 2024

Council decision: Approval Required and RefusedDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

To enlarge bungalow by way of an additional storey increasing ridge height to 7.98m

Received
12 July 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Aspull New Springs Whelley
  1. Received12 Jul
  2. Validated12 Jul
  3. Consult.9 Aug
  4. Target6 Sep
  5. Decided4 Sep

Decided in 54 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application at Shaws Fold Farm Bolton Road Aspull Wigan WN2 1PR. Wigan has handled 133 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 9 days quicker than Wigan's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There have been 4 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 54 applications across Aspull New Springs Whelley. 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 1PR
Application type
Prior Approval for Addition Storeys
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Standish Aspull And Shevington Township

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 July 2024
Consultation expiry
9 August 2024
Neighbour consultation start
19 July 2024
Neighbour consultation end
9 August 2024
Last date for comments
9 August 2024
Target decision date
6 September 2024
Permission expires
4 September 2029

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Anna Taylor Hamill House 112-116 Chorley New Road Bolton BL1 4DH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13124940
Comments
0
Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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

  • Green belt: Wigan
  • 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, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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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