Yew Tree Farm Carr Lane Landside Leigh WN7 3RY
Approved on 16 October 2025
Council decision: GPD Prior Approval NOT RequiredDelegated (officer decision)
Proposal
Prior notification for a proposed agricultural storage building
- Received
- 16 September 2025
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Leigh South
- ReceivedReceived16 Sep
- ValidatedValidated19 Sep
- Consult.Consultation
- TargetTarget Date16 Oct
- DecidedDecided16 Oct
Decided in 27 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is a planning application at Yew Tree Farm Carr Lane Landside Leigh WN7 3RY. Wigan has handled 14 applications of this type. This one was decided in 30 days, 5 weeks quicker than Wigan's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 33 applications across Leigh South. We hold 221 applications in total for the WN7 postcode area.
86% of all 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 3RY
- Application type
- Agricultural/Forestry Notification
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Leigh Township
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 19 September 2025
- Target decision date
- 16 October 2025
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- 311 Hesketh Lane Tarleton Preston PR4 6RJ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 27 days
Site constraints
Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.
- Green belt: Wigan
- 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, conservation areas, listed buildings, 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
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© 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.
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Source: Wigan
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