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Grass Verge Between Garton Drive And Haywood Close Lowton

A/25/098471/TCSOTelecommunications NotificationApproved
Prior approval

Approved on 19 March 2025

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

Proposal

Prior notification of installation of a 15m steel pole to support fibre cables and radio antennae together with associated cabinets housing electronic communications apparatus to form part of a high-speed broadband electronic communications network

Received
23 January 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
19
Ward
Lowton East
  1. Received23 Jan
  2. Validated23 Jan
  3. Consult.19 Feb
  4. Target19 Mar
  5. Decided19 Mar

Decided in 55 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a telecoms application at Grass Verge Between Garton Drive And Haywood Close Lowton. Wigan has handled 15 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 8 days quicker 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.

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

Application type
Telecommunications Notification
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Golborne And Lowton Township

Planning application dates

Date validated
23 January 2025
Consultation expiry
26 February 2025
Consultation start
29 January 2025
Consultation end
19 February 2025
Neighbour consultation start
29 January 2025
Neighbour consultation end
19 February 2025
Last date for comments
26 February 2025
Target decision date
19 March 2025
Permission expires
19 March 2028

Planning decision

Case officer
Rebecca Sudworth
Statutory period
55 days

Publicity

Site notice start
12 February 2025
Site notice end
26 February 2025

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13708685
Documents
13

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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