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Lowfield House Vale View Ackworth Pontefract WF7 7HQ

13/01720/FULFull ApplicationWithdrawn
Full

Withdrawn on 23 August 2013

Council decision: Application WithdrawnDelegated (officer decision)

Approximate location: the centre of the postcode, not the exact property.

Proposal

Change of use of residential property at ground floor to create a nursery school, single story extension to rear and alterations to openings

Received
12 June 2013
Decision level
Delegated (officer decision)
Public comments
8
Ward
Ackworth, North Elmsall And Upton
  1. Received12 Jun
  2. Validated1 Jul
  3. Consult.26 Jul
  4. Target26 Aug
  5. Decided23 Aug

Decided in 53 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is a full planning application for a change of use at Lowfield House Vale View Ackworth Pontefract WF7 7HQ. Wakefield has handled 3,739 applications of this type. It was withdrawn 72 days after it was submitted, before a decision was made. The site is in a conservation area. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 37 applications across Ackworth, North Elmsall And Upton. We hold 442 applications in total for the WF7 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
WF7 7HQ
Application type
Full Application
Scale / size
Small
Parish
Ackworth

Planning application dates

Date validated
1 July 2013
Consultation expiry
16 August 2013
Consultation start
5 July 2013
Consultation end
26 July 2013
Neighbour consultation start
15 October 2013
Neighbour consultation end
26 July 2013
Last date for comments
16 August 2013
Target decision date
26 August 2013
Permission expires
23 August 2016

Planning decision

Statutory period
56 days

Publicity

Site notice start
26 July 2013
Site notice end
16 August 2013

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-02701937
Documents
7

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations at the address point. Ones next to the site may also apply.

  • 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

Contains public sector information from planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG and local planning authorities), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

© 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.

Planning history at this site

1 other application at this property, newest first.

  1. 2026
    10 Aug

    Single storey extension to side/rear

    PendingApplication26/01410/FUL

Source: Wakefield

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