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55 Orchard Head Lane (land Adj) Pontefract West Yorkshire WF8 2NJ

11/02295/FULFull ApplicationApproved
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Approved on 9 February 2012

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Residential Development; 1No Detached Dwelling

Received
10 November 2011
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Pontefract North
  1. Received10 Nov
  2. Validated16 Jan
  3. Consult.8 Dec
  4. Target12 Mar
  5. Decided9 Feb

Decided in 24 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at 55 Orchard Head Lane (land Adj) Pontefract West Yorkshire WF8 2NJ. Wakefield has handled 3,739 applications of this type. This one was decided in 91 days, 5 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 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

Planning application dates

Date validated
16 January 2012
Consultation expiry
16 December 2011
Consultation start
17 November 2011
Consultation end
8 December 2011
Neighbour consultation start
17 November 2011
Neighbour consultation end
8 December 2011
Last date for comments
16 December 2011
Target decision date
12 March 2012
Permission expires
9 February 2015

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
25 November 2011
Site notice end
16 December 2011

Additional information

Documents
5

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.

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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