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Prince Of Wales Colliery Spoil Tip Park Road Pontefract Wakefield WF8 4QB

12/02362/EIASCEIA Scoping opinionApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 4 February 2013

Council decision: EIA Scoping opinion providedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Extension to existing working to extract, stock, and remove up to 2.0 million cubic metres (2.70 million tonnes) of coal slurry from the former spoil tip lagoon; importation of 285,000 cubic metres inert soils and soil making materials and to remodel, restore and prepare the former colliery spoil heap and adjoining land to provide an alternative landform; and provide development platforms and construction of open space; 2 football pitches; (1 full size and 1 training);access and car parking; retaining wall adjacent to proposed northern link road; ecological mitigation ponds and habitat; access ways; footways; landscaping and associated works.

Received
27 November 2012
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
2
Ward
Pontefract North
  1. Received27 Nov
  2. Validated27 Nov
  3. Consult.27 Dec
  4. Target1 Jan
  5. Decided4 Feb

Decided in 69 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for an extension at Prince Of Wales Colliery Spoil Tip Park Road Pontefract Wakefield WF8 4QB. Wakefield has handled 896 applications of this type. This one was decided in 69 days, 13 days 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.

95% of outline 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 4QB
Application type
EIA Scoping opinion
Scale / size
Medium

Planning application dates

Date validated
27 November 2012
Consultation expiry
27 December 2012
Consultation start
6 December 2012
Consultation end
27 December 2012
Last date for comments
27 December 2012
Target decision date
1 January 2013
Permission expires
4 February 2018

Applicant and agent

Agent address
SLR Consulting Ltd Westleigh House, Wakefield Road, Denby Dale, Huddersfield, HD8 8QJ Leeds West Yorkshire WF3 2AB

Planning decision

Statutory period
35 days

Additional information

Documents
0

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
  • Green belt: WakefieldPart 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 (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.

Data © Crown copyright and others · sources and licences

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© 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.

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