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24 Earl Street Wigan WN1 2BW

A/25/099579/LUCELawful Use Certificate ExistingRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 13 November 2025

Council decision: Refused LUCDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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This information is subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 and is reproduced with the permission of HM Land Registry. The polygons (including the associated geometry, namely x, y co-ordinates) are subject to Crown copyright and database rights 2026 Ordnance Survey AC0000851063. Conditions of use.

Proposal

Certificate of Lawful Development for the existing use of a property as a 4 bed, 4 person house in multiple occupation (Use Class C4)

Received
29 August 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Wigan Central
  1. Received29 Aug
  2. Validated15 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target14 Nov
  5. Decided13 Nov

Decided in 59 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 24 Earl Street Wigan WN1 2BW. Wigan has handled 80 applications of this type. This one was decided in 76 days, 13 days longer than Wigan's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 78 applications across Wigan Central. We hold 231 applications in total for the WN1 postcode area.

80% of amendment 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
WN1 2BW
Application type
Lawful Use Certificate Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wigan North

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 September 2025
Target decision date
14 November 2015

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14269366
Comments
0
Documents
4
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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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