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Orchard Head Junior And Infant School Orchard Head Lane Pontefract West Yorkshire WF8 2NJ

08/02958/FULFull ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 22 January 2009

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Modular building to accomodate children's centre, linked to existing nursery unit (resubmission)

Received
27 November 2008
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Pontefract North
  1. Received27 Nov
  2. Validated27 Nov
  3. Consult.2 Jan
  4. Target22 Jan
  5. Decided22 Jan

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Orchard Head Junior And Infant School Orchard Head Lane Pontefract West Yorkshire WF8 2NJ. Wakefield has handled 3,739 applications of this type. This one was decided in 56 days. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application 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 2NJ
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Pontefract

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 November 2008
Consultation expiry
2 January 2009
Last date for comments
2 January 2009
Target decision date
22 January 2009
Permission expires
22 January 2014

Applicant and agent

Agent address
NPS NE Ltd Navigation House Whistler Drive Castleford West Yorkshire WF10 5HX UK

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Last advertised
12 December 2008
Advertisement expiry
2 January 2009
Site notice start
12 December 2008
Site notice end
2 January 2009

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-00604822
Comments
0
Documents
6

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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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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