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The Oaklands Hemsworth Pontefract WF9 4TT

10/02350/S7301Section 73 ApplicationApproved
Discharge / amendments

Approved on 27 November 2023

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Variation of Condition 2 (approved plans) of application 10/02350/REM dated 21.03.2023 (Reserved matters pursuant to the outline planning permission 08/00006/OUT for residential development (128 dwellings) including appearance, landscaping layout and scale) to vary plots 122-127 inclusive.

Received
15 September 2023
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
1
Ward
Hemsworth
  1. Received15 Sep
  2. Validated27 Sep
  3. Consult.23 Oct
  4. Target27 Dec
  5. Decided27 Nov

Decided in 61 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to amend a permission at The Oaklands Hemsworth Pontefract WF9 4TT. Wakefield has handled 436 applications of this type. This one was decided in 73 days, 2 weeks 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 14 applications across Hemsworth. 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 4TT
Application type
Section 73 Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
Hemsworth

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 September 2023
Consultation expiry
9 November 2023
Consultation start
2 October 2023
Consultation end
23 October 2023
Last date for comments
9 November 2023
Target decision date
27 December 2023
Permission expires
27 November 2028

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
19 October 2023
Advertisement expiry
9 November 2023
Site notice start
5 October 2023
Site notice end
26 October 2023

Additional information

Documents
19

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

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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