Proposed Unit 8 Land West Of Wingates Industrial Estate Chorley Road Westhoughton Data via plota.co.uk

00100/26 - Reserved Matters Approved

Proposal

Reserved matters application (details of access, layout, landscaping, appearance and scale) for the erection of an Industrial/warehouse building (unit 8) with associated service yard, car parking, infrastructure and landscaping on outline planning permission Data via plota.co.uk

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View original council record ↗Last checked 24 Aug 2026, 08:50

Application progress

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Received

21 Jan 2026

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Validated

29 Jan 2026

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Consultation

30 Jan 2026

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Approved

15 May 2026

Approved on 15 May 2026 · Delegated Decision · Last checked 7 Jul 2026

Documents 69

Decision & officer reports 2

PDF Decision Notice Decision · 15 May 2026 View ↗ PDF Officer Report Officer Report · 15 May 2026 View ↗

Statements & assessments 17

Plans & drawings 34

Application forms 1

PDF ApplicationFormRedacted Application Form · 21 Jan 2026 View ↗

Consultation & comments 1

PDF CONSULTATION REPORT AUG25 Application Submission Details · 21 Jan 2026 View ↗

Associated applications 4

Part of

VariationApproved17 Jan 2024council archive

Conditions 30, 31, 33 decided (outcome not recorded)
- Reserved mattersReserved matters application (details of access, layout, landscaping, appearance and scale)…This application29 Jan 202600100/26
- Show 2 more · 2 decided
  - ConditionsDISCHARGE OF CONDITIONS 30 (GROUND CONDITION/CONTAMINATION) AND 31 (GROUND…24 Jun 202601165/26
  - ConditionsDISCHARGE OF CONDITION 33 (COAL MINING MITIGATION) ON APPLICATION 16776/2325 Feb 202600340/26

Site constraints 4

Green belt: Merseyside and Greater Manchester

Inappropriate development needs very special circumstances.

Green belt policy allows a short list of exceptions, such as limited extensions and replacement buildings. Anything else needs very special circumstances that clearly outweigh the harm. Some green belt land can count as grey belt, where it does not strongly serve the green belt's purposes. The council decides this in its green belt assessment or on each application, so we do not mark it here.

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Agricultural land, grade 3b

Not best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. A site survey can differ.

Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.

Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone

Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.

Also on the record

Coalfield, development low risk area.

Not affected

Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · No scheduled monument at the site

Checked on 6 October 2026. The pin for this application is the centre of its postcode rather than the building, so distances to nearby designations are measured from the postcode and can be out by the width of the postcode area. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Mining Remediation Authority and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

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Important details

Council: Bolton
Application type: Reserved Matters
Postcode: BL5 3XH
Received: 21 Jan 2026
Validated: 29 Jan 2026
Ward: Westhoughton North & Hunger Hill
Parish: Westhoughton Town Council
Case officer: Show
Target decision: 29 Apr 2026
Decision: Approve subject to conditions
Decision date: 15 May 2026
Decision level: Delegated Decision
Applicant: Show
Agent: Johnson Mowat Planning Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 106 days from validation, 26 days slower than Bolton's median of 80 for commercial and major works. Approved, as 86% of commercial and major works here are.

This one106d

Council80d

UK57d

32%decided within 8 weeks

86%approved

29decided in the last year

Plota live figures for commercial and major works decided by Bolton in the last twelve months, from validation. Bolton decision record →

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference: PP-14205206
Planning Portal ref: PP-14205206
Neighbours: 30 Jan 2026
Consultation: 30 Jan 2026
Comments by: 5 Mar 2026
Site or press notice: 5 Feb 2026
Statutory expiry: 29 Apr 2026
Env. assessment: No

Bolton

Planning Authority Score

2.5/10

Poor

#250 of 296 councils

Relevant to this application:

Major dwellings

Bolton is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #229 out of 296. Bolton is also one of the strictest councils - it refuses more householder applications than almost any other, with only 83% approved vs 90% nationally.

One of the strictest councils

only 83% approved vs 90% nationally

These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance

Bolton decision statistics

Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026

79%

Overall approval rate

Below avg (87%) #263 of 296

83%

Householder approved

Below avg (90%) #259 of 296

51%

Decided in 8 weeks

Below avg (63%) #229 of 296

44%

Extended time limit

Above avg (41%) #175 of 296

63%

Minor dwellings approved

70 decided (1-9 homes)

83%

Major dwellings approved

12 decided (10+ homes)

62%

Change of use approved

113 decided

996

Total decisions

208 refused in the year to March 2026