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12 Eleanor Street Wigan WN3 5AQ

A/24/98116/LUCPLawful Use Certificate ProposedRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 23 December 2024

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of Lawful Development for a proposed change of use from a (Class C3) dwelling to a children's care home for up to 1 child (Class C2)

Received
31 October 2024
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Douglas
  1. Received31 Oct
  2. Validated31 Oct
  3. Consult.6 Dec
  4. Target26 Dec
  5. Decided23 Dec

Decided in 53 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 12 Eleanor Street Wigan WN3 5AQ. Wigan has handled 133 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 10 days quicker than Wigan's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Douglas. We hold 141 applications in total for the WN3 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
WN3 5AQ
Application type
Lawful Use Certificate Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wigan South

Planning application dates

Date validated
31 October 2024
Consultation expiry
6 December 2024
Consultation start
15 November 2024
Consultation end
6 December 2024
Last date for comments
6 December 2024
Target decision date
26 December 2024

Applicant and agent

Agent address
222 Thomas Drive Liverpool L14 3LF

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Appeal history

3360927
Dismissed
Type: Lawful Development CertificateProcedure: Written RepresentationsDecision: 4 February 2026Dev Type: Change of useReason: Refusal

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13530553
Comments
0
Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High 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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