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7 Hand Lane Leigh WN7 3LP

A/26/100525/WTTCAWork to Trees - Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 25 March 2026

Council decision: Approved with Conditions

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

T1, T2 , T3 , & T4 Row of 4 Sycamore trees running along the side of 7 Hand Lane, to be reduced by 5 meters to the growth points closest to that level. Height needs to be reduched this much in line with other trees reduced to this level as these have now been left exposed to the elements.

Received
26 February 2026
Ward
Leigh South
Agent
Manchester South Garden Services
  1. Received26 Feb
  2. Validated26 Feb
  3. Consult.
  4. Target9 Apr
  5. Decided25 Mar

Decided in 27 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a tree application at 7 Hand Lane Leigh WN7 3LP. Wigan has handled 137 applications of this type. This one was decided in 27 days, 5 weeks quicker than Wigan's typical decision time. The site is in the Pennington, Leigh conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 33 applications across Leigh South. We hold 221 applications in total for the WN7 postcode area.

97% of trees 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
WN7 3LP
Application type
Work to Trees - Conservation Area
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Leigh Township

Planning application dates

Date validated
26 February 2026
Target decision date
9 April 2026
Permission expires
25 March 2031

Applicant and agent

Agent
Manchester South Garden Services
Agent address
Keepers Cottage Sunbank Lane Manchester WA15 0PX

Planning decision

Statutory period
42 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-14737624
Comments
0
Documents
3
Constraints
2

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Conservation area: Pennington, Leigh
  • 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, 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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