The Rookeries Carleton Junior And Infant School Carleton Road Pontefract Wakefield WF8 3NP
Approved on 26 November 2009
Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)
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Proposal
Erection of additional school building
- Received
- 25 September 2009
- Decision level
- Delegated (officer decision)
- Ward
- Pontefract South
- ReceivedReceived25 Sep
- ValidatedValidated1 Oct
- Consult.Consultation1 Dec
- TargetTarget Date26 Nov
- DecidedDecided26 Nov
Decided in 56 days (council typically 56)
About this application
This is a full planning application at The Rookeries Carleton Junior And Infant School Carleton Road Pontefract Wakefield WF8 3NP. Wakefield has handled 3,739 applications of this type. This one was decided in 62 days, 6 days longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in 1 listed building nearby. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 23 applications across Pontefract South. 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 3NP
- Application type
- Full Application
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Pontefract
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 1 October 2009
- Consultation expiry
- 1 December 2009
- Consultation start
- 10 November 2009
- Consultation end
- 1 December 2009
- Last date for comments
- 10 November 2009
- Target decision date
- 26 November 2009
- Permission expires
- 26 November 2014
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- NPS NE Ltd Navigation House Whistler Drive Castleford West Yorkshire WF10 5HX United Kingdom
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 56 days
Publicity
- Last advertised
- 9 October 2009
- Advertisement expiry
- 30 October 2009
- Site notice start
- 9 October 2009
- Site notice end
- 30 October 2009
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Green belt: WakefieldNext to 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.
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