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Cow Lane To Brier Lane (Disused Railway Cutting) Havercroft Wakefield West Yorkshire WF4 2QF

08/03121/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 2 March 2009

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use to garden land (retrospective)

Received
22 December 2008
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Crofton, Ryhill And Walton
  1. Received22 Dec
  2. Validated5 Jan
  3. Consult.27 Feb
  4. Target2 Mar
  5. Decided2 Mar

Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Cow Lane To Brier Lane (Disused Railway Cutting) Havercroft Wakefield West Yorkshire WF4 2QF. Wakefield has handled 3,739 applications of this type. This one was decided in 70 days, 2 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 28 applications across Crofton, Ryhill And Walton. We hold 1,338 applications in total for the WF4 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
WF4 2QF
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Havercroft And Cold Hiendley

Planning application dates

Date validated
5 January 2009
Consultation expiry
27 February 2009
Consultation start
6 February 2009
Consultation end
27 February 2009
Last date for comments
27 February 2009
Target decision date
2 March 2009
Permission expires
2 March 2014

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
16 January 2009
Site notice end
6 February 2009

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Brownfield land register: The Scotsman (land within curtilage) Cow Lane, HavercroftRegister site at or near this address
  • 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, 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 and heritage coasts.

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.

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