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Yorkshire Sculpture Park Huddersfield Road Bretton Wakefield WF4 4LG

11/02589/FULFull ApplicationApproved
Full

Approved on 8 March 2012

Council decision: Application ApprovedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Creation of overflow car park

Received
20 December 2011
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Ward
Wakefield Rural
  1. Received20 Dec
  2. Validated20 Dec
  3. Consult.13 Mar
  4. Target20 Mar
  5. Decided8 Mar

Decided in 79 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application at Yorkshire Sculpture Park Huddersfield Road Bretton Wakefield WF4 4LG. Wakefield has handled 3,739 applications of this type. This one was decided in 79 days, 3 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 44 applications across Wakefield Rural. 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 4LG
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Medium
Parish
West Bretton

Planning application dates

Date validated
20 December 2011
Consultation expiry
13 March 2012
Consultation start
21 February 2012
Consultation end
13 March 2012
Last date for comments
13 March 2012
Target decision date
20 March 2012
Decision issued
12 March 2012
Permission expires
13 March 2015

Applicant and agent

Agent address
Wakefield 41 Business Park Wakefield WF2 0XJ

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
20 January 2012
Advertisement expiry
10 February 2012
Site notice start
20 January 2012
Site notice end
10 February 2012

Additional information

Comments
0
Documents
6

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

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 (17)

flood storage areas, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, 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, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.

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

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Associated applications

  1. 2012
    15 Mar

    Discharge of condition 4 (Landscaping) from approved application 11/02589/FUL

    Conditions DischargedDischarge of conditions11/02589/SUB01
  2. 2011
    20 Dec

    Creation of overflow car park

    This applicationApprovedFull11/02589/FUL

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