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241 Upholland Road Billinge Wigan WN5 7DN

A/25/099698/LUCPLawful Use Certificate ProposedRefused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 12 November 2025

Council decision: Refused LUCDelegated (officer decision)

Proposal

Certificate of Lawfulness for change of use from a dwellinghouse (Use Class C3) to a residential care home for 1 child (Use Class C2)

Received
19 September 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Orrell
  1. Received19 Sep
  2. Validated19 Sep
  3. Consult.
  4. Target14 Nov
  5. Decided12 Nov

Decided in 54 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at 241 Upholland Road Billinge Wigan WN5 7DN. Wigan has handled 133 applications of this type. This one was decided in 54 days, 9 days quicker than Wigan's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Orrell. We hold 250 applications in total for the WN5 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
WN5 7DN
Application type
Lawful Use Certificate Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Orrell Billinge And Winstanley Township

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 September 2025
Target decision date
14 November 2025
Decision issued
14 November 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Ms Sarah Sands 1-4 South Park Business Court Hobson Street Macclesfield SK11 8BS

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14200727
Comments
0
Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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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