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Tingley Garden Centre Thorpe Lane Tingley Wakefield WF3 1SL

25/00744/FUFull Planning ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 2 May 2025

Delegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use of part of existing garden centre car park to use as a hand car wash with associated canopy, portacabin office and fenced storage area, for a temporary period of five years

Received
17 February 2025
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ardsley & Robin Hood
  1. Received17 Feb
  2. Validated17 Feb
  3. Consult.17 Apr
  4. Target14 Apr
  5. Decided2 May

Decided in 74 days (council typically 49)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Tingley Garden Centre Thorpe Lane Tingley Wakefield WF3 1SL. Leeds has handled 10,776 applications of this type. This one was decided in 74 days, 4 weeks longer than Leeds's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 62 applications across Ardsley & Robin Hood. We hold 938 applications in total for the WF3 postcode area.

81% of full applications at Leeds City Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).

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Application details

Postcode
WF3 1SL
Application type
Full Planning Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
17 February 2025
Consultation start
13 April 2025
Last date for comments
17 April 2025
Target decision date
14 April 2025

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Mrs Kathryn Farden 20A The Wharfage Ironbridge Telford TF8 7NH

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
19 February 2025

Additional information

Documents
12

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: Leeds
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)
Also checked, none recorded (23)

flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Flood Map for Planning, Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Source: Leeds

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