Sennicar House Sennicar Lane Wigan WN1 2SN Data via plota.co.uk

A/26/101373/WTTCA - Work to Trees - Conservation Area Withdrawn
Trees & landscaping

Proposal

T1 - Sycamore, located on banking next to road and residential entrance. Remove due to severe canopy decline, stem decay, fruiting bodies present from ganoderma applanatum and Kretzschmaria deusta. Data via plota.co.uk

Track application Save this application and get an email when its status or decision changes. Alerts nearby Get email alerts for new planning applications near this address.
View original council record ↗Last checked

Application progress

✓
Received
12 Aug 2026
−
Withdrawn
12 Aug 2026

Withdrawn on 12 Aug 2026 · Last checked 13 Aug 2026

Documents

View the documents on the council's website ↗

Site constraints 7

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.
Read the government guidance ↗
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. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 4. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
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.
Public footpath about 20 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
Habitat network: Network Enhancement Zone 2
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Also on the record
Radon affected area, class 2; Coalfield, development low risk area; Priority habitat about 42 m away: Deciduous woodland.
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, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) 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.

Work with planning data?

Every application in Wigan - and every UK council - as a live feed, an API, or a bulk CSV export.

About Plota's data service

Nearby new applications

13 Aug 2026Pending

331 Wigan Lane Wigan WN1 2RD

Single storey rear extension following demolition of extension and detached gara...

A/26/101376/HH

Important details

Council
Wigan
Application type
Work to Trees - Conservation Area
Postcode
WN1 2SN
Received
12 Aug 2026
Validated
12 Aug 2026
Ward
Aspull New Springs Whelley
Parish
Standish Aspull And Shevington Township
Case officer
Show
Target decision
23 Sept 2026
Decision
Withdrawn
Decision date
12 Aug 2026
Applicant
Show
Agent
Show

Public comments

No public comments yet.

Last counted 13 Aug 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Alt. reference
PP-15153239
Planning Portal ref
PP-15153239
Statutory expiry
23 Sept 2026
Env. assessment
No

Historical activity at this location

7 previous applications on record - archival context, not part of the live application.

This property

Previous applications at this address

2021 Approved
Application to remove condition 2 on planning permission A/35801/91.
A/21/92871/VAR
2021 Approved
Continued occupation in excess of 10 years in breach of Condition number 2 relating to pr…
A/21/92292/LUCE
Within ~100m

Nearby activity

2025 Refused
3 Sennicar Lane Wigan WN1 2SN
Certificate of Lawful Development for proposed rear dormer together with external alterat…
A/25/099876/LUCP
2022 Approved
Wynburne 1 Sennicar Lane Wigan WN1 2SN
To extend dwellinghouse - single storey to side, first floor to the rear and dormer to th…
A/22/93511/HH
2018 Approved
Rothwells Stud Sennicar Lane Wigan WN1 2SN
Condition Discharge Application for previously approved A/17/83640/FULL - To discharge Co…
A/18/83640/CON
2018
Rothwells Stud Sennicar Lane Wigan WN1 2SN
Condition Discharge Application for previously approved A/13/78700 - To discharge Conditi…
A/18/78700/CON
2016 Approved
Agricultural Land East Of 3 Sennicar Lane Wigan WN1 2SN
To discharge condition 3 and 4
A/16/81759/CON
Wigan
Planning Authority Score
2/10
Poor
#273 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Other decisions

Wigan is slower than most councils at deciding householder applications, ranking #216 out of 296. The council extends the time limit on 57% of applications - one of the highest rates in England. Expect your application to take longer than the standard deadline. Householder applications are slightly less likely to be approved here (87%) than the national average (90%).

Frequently extends decision deadlines
expect longer than the statutory limit
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Wigan decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
85%
Overall approval rate
Below avg (87%) #213 of 296
87%
Householder approved
Below avg (90%) #236 of 296
54%
Decided in 8 weeks
Below avg (63%) #216 of 296
57%
Extended time limit
Above avg (41%) #262 of 296
70%
Minor dwellings approved
69 decided (1-9 homes)
94%
Major dwellings approved
16 decided (10+ homes)
60%
Change of use approved
50 decided
708
Total decisions
109 refused in the year to March 2026
Source: MHCLG planning statistics · See full council rankings