Grass Verge Between Garton Drive And Haywood Close Lowton
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
- ReceivedReceived23 Jan
- ValidatedValidated23 Jan
- Consult.Consultation19 Feb
- TargetTarget Date19 Mar
- DecidedDecided19 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
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.
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