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Briar Lane (Former Railway Land) Havercroft

05/99/35665/DFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 21 April 2005

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Construction and resurfacing of track

Received
7 February 2005
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
  1. Received7 Feb
  2. Validated7 Feb
  3. Consult.8 Nov
  4. Target4 Apr
  5. Decided21 Apr

Decided in 73 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Briar Lane (Former Railway Land) Havercroft. Wakefield has handled 3,739 applications of this type. This one was decided in 73 days, 2 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address.

94% of full applications at Wakefield Metropolitan District Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 8 weeks (median).

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Application details

Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small

Planning application dates

Date validated
7 February 2005
Consultation expiry
15 April 2005
Neighbour consultation start
17 February 2005
Last date for comments
8 November 2007
Target decision date
4 April 2005

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
21 March 2005
Advertisement expiry
11 April 2005
Site notice start
25 March 2005
Site notice end
15 April 2005

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
0

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: WakefieldPart of the site
  • Flood zone 1: Low probability (rivers and sea)

Not published by this council, so not checked: conservation areas and Article 4 directions. Ask the council if these matter.

Possibly incomplete for this council: tree preservation orders.

Also checked, none recorded (20)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, 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.

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

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