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Former Harold Wilson House Site Wakefield Road Normanton West Yorkshire

06/01510/FULFull ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 23 November 2006

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

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Proposal

Residential development; 4 apartments and associated car parking

Received
1 September 2006
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Normanton
  1. Received1 Sep
  2. Validated4 Oct
  3. Consult.2 Nov
  4. Target29 Nov
  5. Decided23 Nov

Decided in 50 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Former Harold Wilson House Site Wakefield Road Normanton West Yorkshire. Wakefield has handled 3,739 applications of this type. This one was decided in 83 days, 4 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in the Central conservation area, with 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 38 applications across Normanton.

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
Parish
Normanton

Planning application dates

Date validated
4 October 2006
Consultation expiry
10 November 2006
Consultation start
12 October 2006
Consultation end
2 November 2006
Last date for comments
10 November 2006
Target decision date
29 November 2006
Decision issued
24 November 2006
Permission expires
24 November 2009

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Heyside House Blackshaw Lane Heyside Royton Oldham OL2 6NS

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
20 October 2006
Advertisement expiry
10 November 2006
Site notice start
20 October 2006
Site notice end
10 November 2006

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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 (21)

flood storage areas, listed buildings, green belt, 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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