Unit 11 Ashton Grange Industrial Estate Bryn Road Ashton-in-Makerfield WN4 8BX
Approved on 16 January 2026
Council decision: Approved with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)2 conditions
Proposal
Proposed change of use from light industrial use to a sui generis use involving the collection, sorting, storage and recycling of waste metals (retrospective application)
- Received
- 5 September 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Bryn With Ashton In Makerfield North
- ReceivedReceived5 Sep
- ValidatedValidated20 Oct
- Consult.Consultation13 Nov
- TargetTarget Date19 Jan
- DecidedDecided16 Jan
Decided in 88 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Unit 11 Ashton Grange Industrial Estate Bryn Road Ashton-in-Makerfield WN4 8BX. Wigan has handled 392 applications of this type. This one was decided in 133 days, 10 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 Bryn With Ashton In Makerfield North. We hold 590 applications in total for the WN4 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
- WN4 8BX
- Application type
- Major application
- Scale / size
- Large
- Parish
- Bryn And Ashton Township
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 20 October 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 25 November 2025
- Consultation start
- 23 October 2025
- Consultation end
- 13 November 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 30 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 23 November 2025
- Last date for comments
- 25 November 2025
- Target decision date
- 19 January 2026
- Permission expires
- 16 January 2029
Applicant and agent
- Applicant
- Private applicant
- Agent address
- Miss Leisl Heath Environment House, Werrington Road Bucknall Stoke On Trent ST2 9AF
Planning decision
- Case officer
- Mike Jones
- Statutory period
- 91 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 4 November 2025
- Advertisement expiry
- 18 November 2025
- Site notice start
- 4 November 2025
- Site notice end
- 25 November 2025
Site constraints
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.
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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.
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Source: Wigan
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