Planning application
Shireoaks Wigan Road Lathom Ormskirk Lancashire L40 6JN
Still open. Anyone can comment while the consultation period runs, and comments go to the council rather than to us.
Proposal
Retrospective - Change of use of land to a 3 pitch (6 statics) family gypsy & traveller site.
As published by the council, reference 2025/0808/FUL
Application record
- Reference
- 2025/0808/FUL
- Type
- Full Planning Application
- Status
- Registered
- Received
- 19 Sep 2025
- Validated
- 22 Sep 2025
- Ward
- Rural South Ward
- Parish
- Lathom South
- Decision by
- Delegated unless Member request to Cttee
- Postcode
- L40 6JN
Timeline
Dates from the published record
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19 Sep 2025
Received by West Lancashire
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22 Sep 2025
Validated
Checked as complete and ready for consideration.
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21 Jul 2026
Added to PlanIndex
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Decision
Awaiting decision
Decision expected by 17 November 2025, 8 weeks from validation under the statutory target for most applications. Extensions of time are common and are agreed case by case.
West Lancashire took a median of 70 days over the applications it decided in the last year.
Who's behind it
Company information only, from the register and Companies House
MAT DESIGN LIMITED Agent, a design practice
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Plans, drawings, consultee responses and the officer's report
29 documents on file for this application
- National gas
- Strategic planning response
- National gas
- Cadent gas plan
- Drainage
- Hse
- Hse
- Consultation/neighbours notified
- Mrs deborah simm-195 wigan road lathom ormskirk l40 6jn-objects(full)
- Parish council lathom south parish council-c/o 52 derby street ormskirk l39 2df-
- Mr stephen ashcroft-17 dickets lane lathom skelmersdale wn8 *uh-objects(full)
- Meas
- Mrs michelle mcgivern-29 crosshall brow westhead l40 6jd-objects(full)
- Mrs michelle mcgivern-29 crosshall brow westhead l40 6jd-objects(full)
- Mr john coleman-lynclyst, 193 wigan road, lathom ormskirk, lancashire l40 6jn-ob
- Jacqueline raeburn-199 wigan road lathom l40 6jn-objects(full)
- Mr robert brookfield-belmont 201 wigan road,lathom ormskirk l40 6jn-objects(full
- Mr ronald burke-191 wigan road lathom l40 6jn-objects(full)
- Neighbour objection - mr & mrs halsall, fairhaven
- Graham appleton-3 dickets lane lathom wn88uh-objects(full)
- Mr john coleman-193 wigan road lathom ormskirk l40 6jn-objects(full)
- Highways
- Councillor ian rigby call in request
- Natural gas
- National gas response
- Proposed floor & elevation
- Application form - without personal data
- Existing & proposed
- Proposed
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Open the documentsWhat happens while it is decided
This application is with West Lancashire for determination, against a statutory target of eight weeks. Over the last year West Lancashire decided full applications in a median of 80 days. More in our guide to how long planning decisions take.
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