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Former Build Centre Depot Barnsley Road South Elmsall Pontefract Wakefield WF9 2SE

11/02524/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 20 September 2012

Council decision: Application ApprovedPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Change of use to MOT vehicle testing station/service garage, provision of car parking and boundary treatment

Received
8 December 2011
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
1
Ward
South Elmsall And South Kirkby
  1. Received8 Dec
  2. Validated13 Dec
  3. Consult.24 Jan
  4. Target7 Feb
  5. Decided20 Sep

Decided in 282 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a garage at Former Build Centre Depot Barnsley Road South Elmsall Pontefract Wakefield WF9 2SE. Wakefield has handled 3,739 applications of this type. This one was decided in 287 days, 33 weeks longer than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There has been 1 other application at this address. In the past year there have been 18 applications across South Elmsall And South Kirkby. We hold 1,144 applications in total for the WF9 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
WF9 2SE
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
South Elmsall

Planning application dates

Date validated
13 December 2011
Consultation expiry
3 February 2012
Consultation start
3 January 2012
Consultation end
24 January 2012
Last date for comments
10 February 2012
Target decision date
7 February 2012
Committee meeting
20 September 2012
Decision issued
21 September 2012
Permission expires
22 September 2015

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
13 January 2012
Site notice end
3 February 2012

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-01718326
Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • Flood zone 3: High probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site

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.

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© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

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Associated applications

  1. 2011
    8 Dec

    Change of use to 4 no. general industrial / storage units (use class B2 and B8), external alterations…

    ApprovedFull ApplicationFiled alongside11/02523/FUL
  2. 2011
    8 Dec

    Change of use to MOT vehicle testing station/service garage, provision of car parking and boundary treatment

    This applicationApprovedFull11/02524/FUL

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