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4 Wetheral Close Hindley Industrial Estate Hindley Green Wigan WN2 4HS

A/25/099776/FULLFull DetailsApproved
Full

Approved on 13 January 2026

14 conditions

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Construction of a vehicle workshop and Mot testing facility with offices at first floor level, photovoltaic panels to roof, together with associated external works, car and customer parking, drainage and landscaping works

Received
6 October 2025
Ward
Hindley Green
  1. Received6 Oct
  2. Validated22 Jan
  3. Consult.23 Feb
  4. Target19 Mar
  5. Decided13 Jan

About this application

This is a full planning application for a solar installation at 4 Wetheral Close Hindley Industrial Estate Hindley Green Wigan WN2 4HS. Wigan has handled 392 applications of this type. This one was decided in 99 days, 5 weeks longer than Wigan's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 12 applications across Hindley Green. We hold 224 applications in total for the WN2 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
WN2 4HS
Application type
Full Details
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hindley And Abram Township

Planning application dates

Date validated
22 January 2026
Consultation expiry
26 February 2026
Consultation start
2 February 2026
Consultation end
23 February 2026
Neighbour consultation start
2 February 2026
Neighbour consultation end
26 February 2026
Last date for comments
26 February 2026
Target decision date
19 March 2026
Permission expires
13 January 2029

Applicant and agent

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

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14382943
Comments
0
Documents
25

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

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.

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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