Farrars Farm Winstanley Road Billinge Wigan WN5 7XE
Approved on 16 April 2026
Council decision: Approved with ConditionsDelegated (officer decision)6 conditions
Proposal
Change of use from a domestic dwelling to mixed use as a dwelling house (Use Class C3) and medical aesthetics business (Use Class E(e))
- Received
- 12 January 2026
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Orrell
- ReceivedReceived12 Jan
- ValidatedValidated20 Feb
- Consult.Consultation30 Mar
- TargetTarget Date17 Apr
- DecidedDecided16 Apr
Decided in 55 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a change of use at Farrars Farm Winstanley Road Billinge Wigan WN5 7XE. Wigan has handled 392 applications of this type. This one was decided in 94 days, 4 weeks longer 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 248 applications in total for the WN5 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
- WN5 7XE
- Application type
- Full Details
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Orrell Billinge And Winstanley Township
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 20 February 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 2 April 2026
- Consultation start
- 9 March 2026
- Consultation end
- 30 March 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 9 March 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 2 April 2026
- Last date for comments
- 2 April 2026
- Target decision date
- 17 April 2026
- Permission expires
- 16 April 2029
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Site constraints
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.
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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