This Privacy Notice is regularly reviewed and may be updated or revised at any time. It was last updated in November 2025. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes.
- Introduction
- What personal data do we collect?
- How we use personal data
- Legal Basis for processing
- Who do we share personal data with?
- How long do we keep personal data?
- Automated decisions
- Your rights
- Data Protection Officer.
Introduction
Our core data protection obligations and commitments are set out in the Wigan Council Primary Privacy Notice.
This notice provides additional privacy information for Planning and Transport Policy, Regeneration, Major Projects and Commercial Developments.
What personal data do we collect?
To carry out activities and obligations we process the following personal data:
- Name
- Address
- Telephone number
- Email address
- Date of birth
- Gender
- Bank account details.
We also process the following Special Category Data:
- Information about any disability you may have (i.e. health data), your race or ethnicity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation.
How we use personal data
The main purposes for processing your personal data are:
- Inclusion on mailing lists for project updates
- Involvement in consultations and stakeholder events
- Processing, reporting on, and responding to feedback received during consultations
- To consider applications for grant or project support
- Establishment and maintenance of contracts
- Dealing with enquiries
- Dealing with complaints
- Inclusion on the custom and self-build register.
Legal Basis for processing
The lawful bases we rely on for processing your personal data are:
- It is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation
- It is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller
- It is necessary for the performance of a contract
- You have given consent to the processing of your personal data for one or more specific purposes.
The legal obligations arise from the following (non-exhaustive) list:
- Town and Country Planning Act 1990 as amended
- Transport Act 2000 as amended
- Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023
- Self-build and Custom Housebuilding Act 2015.
The condition we rely on for processing your special category data is:
Reasons of substantial public interest - Equality of opportunity or treatment.
Who do we share personal data with?
In addition to the general reasons for data sharing described in the Council’s Primary Privacy Notice, we collect from or share personal data with the following when required:
- Other teams within Wigan Council
- Other local authorities
- GMCA and TfGM
- Government departments and agencies including, but not limited to, Homes England and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Independent Planning Inspector
- Utility Companies
- Developers, Professional Consultants and Contractors.
Where you have contributed to a statutory consultation on a local plan or development plan, your comments (along with your name and organisation) may be published online, but no further personal details will be published. Following a statutory formal consultation stage, your comments and full contract details will be provided to the Planning Inspector appointed to undertake the public examination of the plan.
How long do we keep personal data?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any future legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
We must continue to retain necessary data in accordance with our corporate records policy to fulfil legal, statutory and regulatory requirements.
Automated decisions
All the decisions we make about you involve human intervention.
Your Rights
More information on how to seek advice to exercise your rights, raise a concern or complain about the handling of your personal data by the council can be found in at Wigan Council Primary Privacy Notice.
Data Protection Officer
If you wish to raise a concern or seek clarification about any aspect of this notice, please contact our Data Protection Officer. Please provide documents to prove your identity along with a description of your concern.
We will respond to all requests within one month.
If you are unhappy with the way that we handle your concern you may complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) (external link).
Document information
Owner: David Proctor, Assistant Director, Planning and Regeneration
Authors: Nick Clarke, Service Manager Planning and Transportation Policy, Susan Culshaw, Service Manager Major Projects, Melanie Lamb, Service Manager Regeneration, Sarah Riley, Service Manager - Commercial Developments
Version and date: V1.0, November 2025