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21 Powell Street Wigan WN1 1XD

A/25/100180/PDMARefused
Prior approval

Refused on 6 March 2026

1 reason for refusal

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Prior notification of proposed change of use of part of ground floor and first floor of commercial use (Use Class E) to 5 self-contained apartments (Use Class C3)

Received
15 December 2025
  1. Received15 Dec
  2. Validated12 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target
  5. Decided6 Mar

Decided in 53 days

About this application

This is a planning application for a change of use at 21 Powell Street Wigan WN1 1XD. Wigan has handled 2,062 applications of this type. This one was decided in 53 days, 10 days quicker than Wigan's typical decision time. The site is in 2 listed buildings nearby. There has been 1 other application at this address. We hold 231 applications in total for the WN1 postcode area.

Why it was refused

  1. The lawful use of the application site and building does not fall into Class E of the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 (as amended), and as such the proposed part change of use to 5 no. self- contained apartments across the ground and first floor of the building is not permitted under Schedule 2, Part 3, Class MA of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended).

From the council's decision notice.

Application details

Postcode
WN1 1XD

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 January 2026

Applicant and agent

Architect profile
MUSE ARCHITECTS LTD

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site

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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