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Footpath Adjacent To Side Of 14 Linden Grove Leigh WN7 5QJ

A/24/97586/TCSOTelecommunications NotificationApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 6 September 2024

Council decision: GPD Prior Approval Required and GRANTEDDelegated (officer decision)

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

Proposal

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

Received
12 July 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Leigh West
  1. Received12 Jul
  2. Validated16 Jul
  3. Consult.6 Aug
  4. Target9 Sep
  5. Decided6 Sep

Decided in 52 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a telecoms application at Footpath Adjacent To Side Of 14 Linden Grove Leigh WN7 5QJ. Wigan has handled 15 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days, 7 days quicker than Wigan's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 26 applications across Leigh West. 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 5QJ
Application type
Telecommunications Notification
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Leigh Township

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 July 2024
Consultation expiry
26 August 2024
Consultation start
16 July 2024
Consultation end
6 August 2024
Neighbour consultation start
5 August 2024
Neighbour consultation end
26 August 2024
Last date for comments
26 August 2024
Target decision date
9 September 2024
Permission expires
6 September 2027

Planning decision

Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Site notice start
2 August 2024
Site notice end
23 August 2024

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-12991057
Documents
13
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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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