52 Church Street Leigh WN7 1AZ
Approved on 24 October 2025
Council decision: GPD Prior Approval Required and GRANTEDDelegated (officer decision)2 conditions
Proposal
Prior notification for change of use from Class E to 2 self-contained flats Class C3
- Received
- 4 September 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Leigh Central And Higher Folds
- ReceivedReceived4 Sep
- ValidatedValidated11 Sep
- Consult.Consultation7 Oct
- TargetTarget Date6 Nov
- DecidedDecided24 Oct
Decided in 43 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is an outline application for a change of use at 52 Church Street Leigh WN7 1AZ. Wigan has handled 133 applications of this type. This one was decided in 50 days, 13 days quicker than Wigan's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 35 applications across Leigh Central And Higher Folds. We hold 221 applications in total for the WN7 postcode area.
73% of outline 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
- WN7 1AZ
- Application type
- GPD Class MA
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Leigh Township
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 11 September 2025
- Consultation expiry
- 10 October 2025
- Consultation start
- 16 September 2025
- Consultation end
- 7 October 2025
- Neighbour consultation start
- 12 September 2025
- Neighbour consultation end
- 3 October 2025
- Last date for comments
- 10 October 2025
- Target decision date
- 6 November 2025
- Decision issued
- 4 November 2025
- Permission expires
- 4 November 2030
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Mr Sam Golding 55A Bury Old Road Prestwich M25 0FG
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Site notice start
- 19 September 2025
- Site notice end
- 10 October 2025
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.
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.
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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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