141 St Helens Road Leigh WN7 3JH

A/26/100764/WTTCAWork to Trees - Conservation AreaApproved

Approved on 27 May 2026

Council decision: Approved with Conditions

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

Proposal

Front Garden T1 Remove branches and limbs shown on photo Rear Garden T2 Judas tree Fell and replace with 2 Silver Birch

Received: 11 April 2026
Council: Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council
Ward: Leigh South

ReceivedReceived11 Apr
ValidatedValidated11 Apr
Consult.Consultation
TargetTarget Date23 May
DecidedDecided27 May

Decided in 46 days (council typically 63)

About this application

This is a tree application at 141 St Helens Road Leigh WN7 3JH. Wigan has handled 137 applications of this type. This one was decided in 46 days, 2 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 3JH
Application type: Work to Trees - Conservation Area
Scale / size: Small
Parish: Leigh Township

Planning application dates

Date validated: 11 April 2026
Target decision date: 23 May 2026

Applicant and agent

Applicant: Private applicant

Planning decision

Case officer: David Broome
Statutory period: 42 days

Additional information

Comments: 0
Documents: 0
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.

Source: Wigan

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