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Beaconfield Cottage Field Lane Upton Pontefract West Yorkshire WF9 1BH

08/00303/CPECertificate Existing Lawful Use or DevApproved
Lawful development certificate

Approved on 14 April 2008

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Certificate of lawful use as independant domestic dwelling

Received
8 February 2008
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Ackworth, North Elmsall And Upton
  1. Received8 Feb
  2. Validated19 Feb
  3. Consult.13 Mar
  4. Target15 Apr
  5. Decided14 Apr

Decided in 55 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at Beaconfield Cottage Field Lane Upton Pontefract West Yorkshire WF9 1BH. Wakefield has handled 436 applications of this type. This one was decided in 66 days, 10 days 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 37 applications across Ackworth, North Elmsall And Upton. We hold 1,144 applications in total for the WF9 postcode area.

93% of amendment 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
WF9 1BH
Application type
Certificate Existing Lawful Use or Dev
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Upton

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 February 2008
Consultation expiry
4 April 2008
Consultation start
21 February 2008
Consultation end
13 March 2008
Neighbour consultation start
10 March 2008
Neighbour consultation end
12 March 2008
Last date for comments
4 April 2008
Target decision date
15 April 2008
Permission expires
14 April 2013

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Clifton House Howe Lane Goxhill North Lincolnshire DN19 7HL

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
14 March 2008
Advertisement expiry
4 April 2008

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
6

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.

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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Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2007
    27 Dec

    Single storey extension and conservatory to front

    ApprovedFull Application07/03569/FUL

Source: Wakefield

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