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81 Albert Street Wigan WN5 9DR

A/25/100092/LUCELawful Use Certificate ExistingRefused
Lawful development certificate

Refused on 5 February 2026

Council decision: Refused LUCDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Certificate of Lawful Development for the existing use of a property as a 4 bed, 4 person house in multiple occupation (Use Class C4)

Received
28 November 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
3
Ward
Douglas
  1. Received28 Nov
  2. Validated12 Dec
  3. Consult.5 Jan
  4. Target6 Feb
  5. Decided5 Feb

Decided in 55 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at 81 Albert Street Wigan WN5 9DR. Wigan has handled 80 applications of this type. This one was decided in 69 days, 6 days longer than Wigan's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 41 applications across Douglas. We hold 248 applications in total for the WN5 postcode area.

80% of amendment 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 9DR
Application type
Lawful Use Certificate Existing
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wigan South

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 December 2025
Consultation expiry
5 January 2026
Consultation start
15 December 2025
Consultation end
5 January 2026
Last date for comments
5 January 2026
Target decision date
6 February 2026

Applicant and agent

Architect profile
CANDID ARCHITECTURE LIMITED
Agent address
Mr Richard Lowe 93 Parsonage Road Heaton Moor Stockport SK4 4JL

Planning decision

Case officer
Jessica Tynan
Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14523962
Documents
8

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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