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Morris Farm Bickershaw Lane Abram Wigan WN2 5TD

A/25/099898/PDQGPD Class Q (2015)Refused
Outline / PiP

Refused on 17 December 2025

Council decision: GPD Prior Approval Required and REFUSED2 reasons for refusal

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Prior notification to convert existing barn into 2 dwellinghouses (Use Class C3), with alterations to elevations

Received
23 October 2025
Ward
Abram
  1. Received23 Oct
  2. Validated6 Nov
  3. Consult.8 Dec
  4. Target1 Jan
  5. Decided17 Dec

Decided in 41 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application for a new dwelling at Morris Farm Bickershaw Lane Abram Wigan WN2 5TD. Wigan has handled 133 applications of this type. This one was decided in 55 days, 8 days quicker than Wigan's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 28 applications across Abram. We hold 224 applications in total for the WN2 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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Why it was refused

  1. The submitted plans and information presented within the submission, fails to adequately demonstrate that all habitable rooms within proposed ‘Dwelling 2’ as indicated on the submitted plans would comply with Paragraph Q.1(o), which requires proposed dwellings to be capable of meeting the Nationally Described Space Standards issued by the Department for Communities and Local Government on 27 March 2015. This includes rooms sizes (section 10.d of the guidance) and the minimum floor to ceiling height as detailed in section 10.i of the guidance. Therefore, prior approval cannot be granted in this case.
  2. Insufficient information has been submitted to adequately demonstrate that the upper bedrooms within proposed ‘Dwelling 2’, as shown on the submitted plans would be served by adequate natural light. The floor plans are devoid of rooflight measurements, and no detail of the rooflights to serve each bedroom is provided on the elevation plan. As such, ‘Dwelling 2’ fails to demonstrate compliance with the requirements of Class Q.2(1)(g) of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended). The proposal fails to satisfy design and amenity objectives set out in Policies CP10 and CP17 of the Wigan Local Plan Core Strategy.

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
WN2 5TD
Application type
GPD Class Q (2015)
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Hindley And Abram Township

Planning application dates

Date validated
6 November 2025
Consultation expiry
10 December 2025
Consultation start
17 November 2025
Consultation end
8 December 2025
Last date for comments
10 December 2025
Target decision date
1 January 2026
Decision issued
23 December 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mr Luke Banks Oakdene Grange Lane Hutton Preston PR4 5JH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
19 November 2025
Site notice end
10 December 2025

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
15

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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.

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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.

© 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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