Planning disclaimer

By using the Planning Applications Enquiry Information System you are agreeing to the following disclaimer:

Wigan Disclaimer

The Planning Applications Enquiry Information System provides members of the public with access to Wigan Council ("the Council") planning and map-based data, for information purposes; all information is for indicative use only. The Council seeks to meet the highest standard of quality information. Whilst every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the data, which is supplied in good faith, the Council will not accept any liability in respect of any loss, damage or injury (financial, contractual or otherwise) sustained as a result or allegedly as a result of reliance thereon.

Plans and other documents included on this website are for information only. Wigan Council may not be the copyright holder for these documents and no license to make any copies or any commercial use of any images is implied, or should be inferred. If you wish to make copies of these documents, it is your responsibility to ensure that you have the copyright holder's permission to do so.

Wigan Council is not responsible for any action a copyright holder might take against any person who copies or otherwise makes use of these images in breach of the copyright holder's rights and wishes.

By using this website, you acknowledge your responsibility to use images only in accordance with the rights of those who created and own the content of them.

Scaling of Plans

If printing plans from these pages please note that they will not necessarily be to the exact scale specified on the plans. For any measurements required you will need to visit the Planning and Regeneration offices in Wigan or the appropriate public library.

Statement of Purpose

The Ordnance Survey mapping included within this website is provided by the Council under licence from the Ordnance Survey in order to fulfil its public function to make available Council held public domain information. You should contact the Ordnance Survey for advice if you wish to licence Ordnance Survey mapping/map data for your own use.

Maps used by the Council are reproduced from Ordnance Survey material with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office © Crown copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Wigan Council Licence No.100019578. 2005. 2019.

By using the Planning Applications Enquiry Information System you are agreeing to the following terms and conditions:

A. Use of National Land and Property Gazetteer

Licence Agreement for access to national and/or authority datasets

Set out below are the terms and conditions which, together with any legal notices displayed elsewhere on the Planning Applications Enquiry System, represent all the terms and conditions on which we will provide you with access to the datasets created by the Local Government Information House Limited (the "National Datasets") and/or the datasets compiled by the Council (the "Authority Datasets") associated with the use of the National Land and Property Gazetteer and the National Street Gazetteer.

The terms and conditions for this licence agreement are as follows:

  • The National and/or Authority datasets are associated with the use of the National Land and property Gazetteer and the national street Gazetteer. Information displayed throughout the Planning Applications Enquiry System is extracted from copyright work owned by the Local Government Information House Limited and the Council.
  • A single screen print of the results of a search of the National and/or Authority datasets is permitted for your own use.
  • You may not extract or re-utilise information derived from the National and/or Authority datasets and/or any copies of such information (whether electronic or in hard copy format) for any commercial or business purpose including but not limited to, trading, building commercial databases, reselling or redistribution of such information.
  • You are not permitted to modify, adapt, arrange, alter, adjust or make any additions to any information derived from the National and/or Authority datasets, nor are you permitted to combine such information with other mapping, data or other information including for the avoidance of doubt, other such information derived from this website.
  • Save as permitted by point 2 above, the reproduction, copying, downloading, storage, recording, broadcasting, retransmission, distribution, decompilation, reverse-engineering or disassembly of any part of the National and/or Authority datasets is not permitted without our prior written consent.
  • It is your responsibility to ensure that any information derived from the National and/or Authority datasets is not made available, either unencrypted form or in hard copy format, to any third party that may attempt to use the datasets in contravention of these terms and conditions.
  • You must inform us immediately if you become aware of a third party using information derived from the National and/or Authority datasets in contravention of these terms and conditions or of any infringement of trade marks located on the Planning Applications Enquiry System.
  • We shall have no liability to any person or organisation in respect of any loss or damage arising directly or indirectly from the use of the information contained on the Planning Applications Enquiry System.
  • The Council seeks to meet the highest standard of quality information. We take every reasonable effort to ensure that the information contained on the Planning Applications Enquiry System is as accurate as possible. However, the services featured on the Planning Applications Enquiry System are provided "as is" and all warranties, conditions and other terms implied by statue or common law are, to the fullest extent permitted by law, excluded. We shall not be liable to you for any indirect or consequential loss (whether for loss of profit, loss of business, depletion of goodwill or otherwise), costs, expense or other claims for consequential compensation whatsoever (howsoever caused) which arise out of or in connection with your use of the Planning Applications Enquiry System.

B. Copyright

Ordnance Survey Copyright Statement

Maps used by the Council are reproduced from Ordnance Survey material with the permission of the Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office © Crown copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Wigan Council Licence No.100019578. 2005. 2019.

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