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26 Cotswold Avenue Lowton Warrington WA3 1HW

A/26/100338/LUCPLawful Use Certificate ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 9 March 2026

Council decision: Granted LUC Proposed Use or DevelopmentDelegated (officer decision)

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Certificate of lawful development for proposed porch to front and single storey side extension

Received
20 January 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Lowton East
  1. Received20 Jan
  2. Validated20 Jan
  3. Consult.
  4. Target17 Mar
  5. Decided9 Mar

Decided in 48 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application for a single storey side extension at 26 Cotswold Avenue Lowton Warrington WA3 1HW. Wigan has handled 133 applications of this type. This one was decided in 48 days, 2 weeks quicker than Wigan's typical decision time. There have been 3 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 43 applications across Lowton East. We hold 2,779 applications in total for the WA3 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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Application details

Postcode
WA3 1HW
Application type
Lawful Use Certificate Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Golborne And Lowton Township

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 January 2026
Target decision date
17 March 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Miss Rebecca Evans House 13 Freeland Park Lytchett Wareham Road BH16 6FA

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14633855
Comments
0
Documents
5
Constraints
1

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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