Prince Of Wales Colliery Park Road Pontefract WF8 1PF

13/01144/SUB16Discharge of Conditions RequestApproved

Discharge / amendments

Approved on 23 December 2016

Council decision: Conditions part DischargedDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate site (title boundary)

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Proposal

Part Discharge of Condition 14 (Supplementary Travel Plan) to Outline permission 13/01144/OUT - S73 Variation of conditions from approval application 06/02544/OUT: Condition 5 Revised Notional Masterplan), 6 (Revised Notional Masterplan), 7 (Approved Plans), 18 (Proposed 540 dwellings served from Park Road Access) and 25 (Details of highway works). and 06/02544/OUT - Outline planning application for the redevelopment of the former colliery pit yard and adjoining land with mixed use urban extension to Pontefract to include erection for residential development (C3 - 917), employment development (B1 - 21853 sq metres), live-work units (sui generis 10 units) and supportive ancillary facilities including retail, restaurants, cafes and drinking establishments (A1, A3, A4-2474 sq metres), a medical centre(D1), a community centre (D1), a children's day nursery (D1)and construction of a new road, access roads, a linear park, footpaths, public squares and public open spaces, car parking, landscaping and associated works.

Received: 15 November 2016
Decision level: Delegated (officer decision)
Council: Wakefield Metropolitan District Council
Ward: Pontefract North

ReceivedReceived15 Nov
ValidatedValidated15 Nov
Consult.Consultation21 Dec
TargetTarget Date10 Jan
DecidedDecided23 Dec

Decided in 38 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an application to vary a condition at Prince Of Wales Colliery Park Road Pontefract WF8 1PF. Wakefield has handled 1,090 applications of this type. This one was decided in 38 days, 3 weeks quicker than Wakefield's typical decision time. The site is in a conservation area. There have been 15 other applications 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.

99% of conditions 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 1PF
Application type: Discharge of Conditions Request
Scale / size: Large
Number of dwellings: 540

Planning application dates

Date validated: 15 November 2016
Consultation expiry: 21 December 2016
Consultation start: 30 November 2016
Consultation end: 21 December 2016
Last date for comments: 21 December 2016
Target decision date: 10 January 2017
Permission expires: 23 December 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent address: Spawforths Junction 41 Business Court East Ardsley Leeds WF3 2AB United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period: 56 days

Additional information

Planning Portal ID: PP-05630383
Comments: 0
Documents: 3

Site constraints

Checking the site

2/3

Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

Brownfield land register: Prince of Wales Colliery Park Road, PontefractRegister site at or near this address
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 (20)

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 and heritage coasts.

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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