Car Park Rear Of 104 - 108 Wallgate Wigan WN3 4AB

1. 1.The proposal fails to provide a high quality design, and would result in a bland, inactive ground floor street frontage to Great George Street. The lack of architectural design features or interest means that it would introduce a bland and bulky new element in the streetscene. It would result in as an overly dominant and obtrusive addition to a prominent site at a gateway location into Wigan town centre. It also proposes the use of inappropriate boundary treatments, in the form of palisade fencing on site boundaries. The proposal would be contrary to Policy CP10 of the Wigan Local Plan Core Strategy, Policy JP -P1 of the Places for Everyone Joint Development Plan, Saved Policies EM1A and EM1C of the Wigan Replacement Unitary Development Plan, Good Fencing Guide Supplementary Planning Guidance and the design objectives of the National Planning Policy Framework.
2. 2.The proposal would result in the removal of a pedestrian footway to provide a loading bay on adopted highway to the detriment of pedestrian accessibility and safety. This would result in the provision of insufficient usable car parking and cycle parking, leading to a likelihood of increased on -street parking to the detriment of highway safety. The proposal fails to accord with saved Policies EM1A, EM1C and A1S of the Wigan Replacement Unitary Development Plan,, Policy CP7 of the Wigan Local Plan Core Strategy, Policies JP -C1, JP -C5, JP -C6 and JP -C8 of the Places for Everyone Joint Development Plan, Access for All Supplementary Planning Document, the Car Parking Policy Note, or the transport objectives of the National Planning Policy Framework. Statement under Article 3 5 (2) of the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015

From the council's decision notice.

Postcode

WN3 4AB

Date validated

14 May 2026

Architect profile

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