Unit 7 Prospect Industrial Estate Platt Lane Hindley Wigan WN2 3PA
Approved on 23 January 2026
Council decision: Approved with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)5 conditions
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Proposal
Erection of an industrial unit (Class B2/B8)
- Received
- 13 August 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Hindley
- ReceivedReceived13 Aug
- ValidatedValidated1 Sep
- Consult.Consultation26 Sep
- TargetTarget Date2 Feb
- DecidedDecided23 Jan
Decided in 144 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is a full planning application at Unit 7 Prospect Industrial Estate Platt Lane Hindley Wigan WN2 3PA. Wigan has handled 392 applications of this type. This one was decided in 163 days, 14 weeks longer than Wigan's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 23 applications across Hindley. We hold 224 applications in total for the WN2 postcode area.
85% of full 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 3PA
- Application type
- Full Details
- Scale / size
- Medium
- Parish
- Hindley And Abram Township
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 1 September 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 29 September 2025
- Consultation start
- 5 September 2025
- Consultation end
- 26 September 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 5 September 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 29 September 2025
- Last date for comments
- 29 September 2025
- Target decision date
- 2 February 2026
- Decision issued
- 30 January 2026
- Permission expires
- 30 January 2029
Applicant and agent
- Architect profile
- WHIS STEEL DESIGN & BUILD LTD
- Agent address
- Mr Nigel Whistler 38A Glendale Gardens Leigh-on-Sea SS9 2AS
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 154 days
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
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.
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Source: Wigan
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