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First Floor 89-91 High Street Golborne Warrington WA3 3BU

A/25/099689/LUCPLawful Use Certificate ProposedRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 28 January 2026

Delegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Certificate of lawful development for proposed conversion of first floor accommodation from shop/storage areas (Class E(c)(iii) to two single person, one bed apartments (Class C3)

Received
16 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Golborne And Lowton West
  1. Received16 Sep
  2. Validated15 Oct
  3. Consult.
  4. Target29 Jan
  5. Decided28 Jan

Decided in 105 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application at First Floor 89-91 High Street Golborne Warrington WA3 3BU. Wigan has handled 133 applications of this type. This one was decided in 134 days, 10 weeks longer than Wigan's typical decision time. The site is in the Golborne Town Centre conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Golborne And Lowton West. We hold 2,779 applications in total for the WA3 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
WA3 3BU
Application type
Lawful Use Certificate Proposed
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Golborne And Lowton Township

Planning application dates

Date validated
15 October 2025
Target decision date
29 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Paul Baines Renaissance Studio 1 Derby Street Leigh WN7 4PF

Planning decision

Case officer
Rebecca Sudworth
Statutory period
106 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-13963883
Comments
0
Documents
9
Constraints
1

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Conservation area: Golborne Town Centre
  • 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 (21)

flood storage 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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