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Prince Of Wales Colliery Park Road Pontefract West Yorkshire WF8 4QB

06/01565/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 16 March 2007

Council decision: Application ApprovedPlanning committee

Proposal

Extract, stock and remove 50,000m3 (70,000 metric tonnes) of coal slurry

Received
6 September 2006
Decision level
Planning committee
Ward
Pontefract North
  1. Received6 Sep
  2. Validated12 Sep
  3. Consult.6 Oct
  4. Target7 Nov
  5. Decided16 Mar

Decided in 185 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Prince Of Wales Colliery Park Road Pontefract West Yorkshire WF8 4QB. Wakefield has handled 3,739 applications of this type. This one was decided in 191 days, 19 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. There have been 2 other applications at this address. In the past year there have been 34 applications across Pontefract North. We hold 2,011 applications in total for the WF8 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
WF8 4QB
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Pontefract

Planning application dates

Date validated
12 September 2006
Consultation expiry
12 December 2006
Consultation start
15 September 2006
Consultation end
6 October 2006
Neighbour consultation start
3 April 2007
Neighbour consultation end
12 December 2006
Last date for comments
13 October 2006
Target decision date
7 November 2006
Committee meeting
30 November 2006
Permission expires
16 March 2012

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Spawforth Associates Junction 41 Business Court East Ardsley Leeds WF3 2AB

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
8

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • Green belt: Wakefield
  • 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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© Historic England 2026. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. The Historic England GIS Data contained in this material was obtained on 2026-11-03. The most publicly available up to date Historic England GIS Data can be obtained from HistoricEngland.org.uk.

© 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.

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

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Source: Wakefield

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