40 Crank Road Billinge Wigan WN5 7EX
Approved on 17 April 2026
Council decision: Approved with Conditions5 conditions
Proposal
Single storey side extensions, alterations to ground floor rear fenestration, hip to gable roof alteration to facilitate loft conversion with dormers to front and rear, together with partial render to all new facades
- Received
- 5 February 2026
- Ward
- Orrell
- ReceivedReceived5 Feb
- ValidatedValidated16 Feb
- Consult.Consultation26 Mar
- TargetTarget Date21 Apr
- DecidedDecided17 Apr
Decided in 60 days (council typically 63)
About this application
This is a full planning application for a loft conversion at 40 Crank Road Billinge Wigan WN5 7EX. Wigan has handled 392 applications of this type. This one was decided in 71 days, 8 days 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 250 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 7EX
- Application type
- Householder
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Orrell Billinge And Winstanley Township
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 16 February 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 26 March 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 2 March 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 26 March 2026
- Last date for comments
- 26 March 2026
- Target decision date
- 21 April 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Zach Thorp Office Space 5 151 The Rock Bury BL9 0ND
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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