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The Cinema House Gin Lane Streethouse Pontefract West Yorkshire WF7 6DQ

06/01248/FULFull ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 6 November 2006

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use from offices to dwelling

Received
7 August 2006
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Featherstone
  1. Received7 Aug
  2. Validated11 Sep
  3. Consult.5 Oct
  4. Target6 Nov
  5. Decided6 Nov

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at The Cinema House Gin Lane Streethouse Pontefract West Yorkshire WF7 6DQ. Wakefield has handled 3,739 applications of this type. This one was decided in 91 days, 5 weeks longer than Wakefield'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 11 applications across Featherstone. We hold 442 applications in total for the WF7 postcode area.

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

Postcode
WF7 6DQ
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Featherstone

Planning application dates

Date validated
11 September 2006
Consultation expiry
13 October 2006
Consultation start
14 September 2006
Consultation end
5 October 2006
Last date for comments
13 October 2006
Target decision date
6 November 2006
Permission expires
6 November 2009

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Newlands Cutsyke Road Featherstone Pontefract WF7 6BD

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
22 September 2006
Advertisement expiry
13 October 2006
Site notice start
22 September 2006
Site notice end
13 October 2006

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Green belt: WakefieldNext to 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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© 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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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2012
    22 Jun

    Signage Scheme; 2no non illuminated signs (retrospective)

    RefusedAdvertisement consent12/01316/ADV

Source: Wakefield

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