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Masonic Hall Chapel Street Pemberton Wigan WN5 8JP

A/26/100462/LUCPLawful Use Certificate ProposedApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 26 March 2026

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

Site boundary (council red line)

Proposal

Certificate of Lawful Development for a change of use to an Educational Facility (Use Class F1)

Received
17 February 2026
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Pemberton
  1. Received17 Feb
  2. Validated17 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target14 Apr
  5. Decided26 Mar

Decided in 37 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is an outline application for a change of use at Masonic Hall Chapel Street Pemberton Wigan WN5 8JP. Wigan has handled 133 applications of this type. This one was decided in 37 days, 4 weeks quicker than Wigan's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 32 applications across Pemberton. We hold 250 applications in total for the WN5 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
WN5 8JP
Application type
Lawful Use Certificate Proposed
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Wigan South

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 February 2026
Target decision date
14 April 2026

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mrs Rebecca Booth 49 Hanson Road Meltham HD9 5LR

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14699350
Comments
0
Documents
5

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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