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Land At Wakefield Road Pontefract WF8 4HW

13/02705/OUTOutline ApplicationApproved
Outline / PiP

Approved on 6 February 2014

Council decision: Application ApprovedPlanning committee

Approximate site (title boundary)
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Proposal

Outline Application for 22no. Dwellings (access only) together with demolition of existing dwelling and removal of commercial uses

Received
19 September 2013
Decision level
Planning committee
Public comments
10
Ward
Pontefract South
  1. Received19 Sep
  2. Validated19 Sep
  3. Consult.30 Oct
  4. Target19 Dec
  5. Decided6 Feb

Decided in 140 days (council typically 56)

About this application

This is an outline application for demolition at Land At Wakefield Road Pontefract WF8 4HW. Wakefield has handled 896 applications of this type. This one was decided in 140 days, 12 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 23 applications across Pontefract South. 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 4HW
Application type
Outline Application
Scale / size
Large
Number of dwellings
22

Planning application dates

Date validated
19 September 2013
Consultation expiry
1 November 2013
Consultation start
9 October 2013
Consultation end
30 October 2013
Neighbour consultation start
29 January 2014
Neighbour consultation end
23 October 2013
Last date for comments
1 November 2013
Target decision date
19 December 2013
Committee meeting
6 February 2014
Decision issued
11 February 2014
Permission expires
11 February 2019

Applicant and agent

Agent address
10 Rishworth Street Wakefield West Yorkshire WF1 3BY United Kingdom

Planning decision

Statutory period
91 days

Publicity

Last advertised
11 October 2013
Advertisement expiry
1 November 2013
Site notice start
11 October 2013
Site notice end
1 November 2013

Additional information

Planning Portal ID
PP-02765049
Documents
5

Site constraints

Checking the site
2/3
Council recordsAppealsFlood risk

Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.

  • 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

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© 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.

Associated applications

  1. 2014
    13 Jun

    Residential development 22 no dwelling (reserved matters pursuant to outline approval 13/02705/OUT

    ApprovedReserved mattersRelated14/01310/REM
  2. 2013
    19 Sep

    Outline Application for 22no. Dwellings (access only) together with demolition of existing dwelling and…

    This applicationApprovedOutline13/02705/OUT

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